ANDANTE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Andante

... people of India, Greece, and Italy agree in calling the component elements of their verses feet or steps ([Greek: pous], pes, Sanskrit pad or pada; padapankti, a row of feet, and gagati, i. e. andante, are names of Sanskrit metres). It is not too much, therefore, to say that they may have considered metre as a kind of stepping or striding, and that they may accordingly have called it 'stride.' If then we find the name for metre in Sanskrit khandas, i. e. skandas, ...

— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller