च्यु

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

च्यव् (cyav)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

চ্যু (Assamese script)
ᬘ᭄ᬬᬸ (Balinese script)
চ্যু (Bengali script)
𑰓𑰿𑰧𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀘𑁆𑀬𑀼 (Brahmi script)
စျု (Burmese script)
ચ્યુ (Gujarati script)
ਚ੍ਯੁ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌚𑍍𑌯𑍁 (Grantha script)
ꦕꦾꦸ (Javanese script)
𑂒𑂹𑂨𑂳 (Kaithi script)
ಚ್ಯು (Kannada script)
ច្យុ (Khmer script)
ຈ຺ຍຸ (Lao script)
ച്യു (Malayalam script)
ᢜᠶᡠ (Manchu script)
𑘓𑘿𑘧𑘳 (Modi script)
ᢋᠶ᠋ᠤ (Mongolian script)
𑦳𑧠𑧇𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
𑐔𑑂𑐫𑐸 (Newa script)
ଚ୍ଯୁ (Odia script)
ꢗ꣄ꢫꢸ (Saurashtra script)
𑆖𑇀𑆪𑆶 (Sharada script)
𑖓𑖿𑖧𑖲 (Siddham script)
ච්‍යු (Sinhalese script)
𑩡 𑪙𑩻𑩒 (Soyombo script)
𑚏𑚶𑚣𑚰 (Takri script)
ச்யு (Tamil script)
చ్యు (Telugu script)
จฺยุ (Thai script)
ཙྱུ (Tibetan script)
𑒔𑓂𑒨𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
𑨣𑩇𑨪𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kyew-

Sanskrit च्यु

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyaw-, from Proto-Indo-European *kyew- (“to set in motion”). Cognate with Old Armenian չու (čʻu, “journey, road”) and չուեմ (čʻuem, “to set out”), whence Armenian չվել (čʻvel, “to migrate (of birds, a group)”), Northern Kurdish çûn (“to go”), Classical Persian (šudan, “to go”), and Ancient Greek σεύω (seúō, “put in quick motion, drive”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕju/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕju/

Root

च्यु • (cyu)

to move to and fro, stir, go away, turn off
to deviate from, abandon
to come forth, trickle
to fall down, die
to fall away, fade, vanish

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

च्यव॑ते (cyávate, present)
च्यव॑ति (cyávati, present)
च्यो॒ष्यते॑ (cyoṣyáte, future)
च्यो॒ता (cyotā́, periphrastic future)
अच्यो॑ष्ट (ácyoṣṭa, aorist)
च्यो॒षी॒ष्ट (cyoṣīṣṭá, benedictive)
चु॒च्यु॒वे (cucyuvé, perfect)

Secondary forms

च्यू॒यते॑ (cyūyáte, passive)
च्या॒वय॑ति (cyāváyati, causative)
अचु॑च्यवत् (ácucyavat, causative aorist)
चिच्यावयिषति (cicyāvayiṣati, desiderative of causative)

Non-finite forms

च्यु॒त (cyutá, past participle)
च्यवि॑तुम् (cyávitum, infinitive)
च्यु॒त्वा (cyutvā́, gerund)
च्युत्य॑ (cyútya, gerund)

Derived nominal forms

च्यव (cyava, “shaking”)
च्यवन (cyavana, “moving, shaking”)
च्यवान (cyavāna, “active, arms”)
च्यावन (cyāvana, “causing to fall, expulsion”)
च्यावयितृ (cyāvayitṛ, “causer of motion”)
च्युत् (cyut, “moving, shaking”)
च्युति (cyuti, “banishment, falling down, degeneration”)
च्यौत्न (cyautna, “animating, promoting, shaking, concussion”)

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root च्यु (0 c, 3 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root च्यु (7 c, 0 e)

References

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “CYAV”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 552
^ Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*či̯au”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 40

Further reading

Monier Williams (1899), “च्यु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0403, column 2.
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “च्यु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
William Dwight Whitney (1885), “cyu, 'move, stir'”, in The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 049

Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “च्यु”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016