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tasara
Sanskrit · ancient
"a weaving shuttle"
named the weaver's shuttle
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tasar
Hindi · medieval
"wild silk"
shifted to mean the wild silk woven with such shuttles
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tussore
English · 1600s
"a coarse, natural-colored silk from wild silkworms"
British traders adopted the word for the coarse Indian wild silk
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