रह्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Of Indo-Iranian origin. The verbal forms are not attested in Vedic Sanskrit. Compare रहस् (ráhas, secret) with Classical Persian رَاز (rāz, secret).

Mayrhofer tentatively derived the root from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (to lay) originally,[1] but later doubts this derivation.[2][3] Whitney compares this root with रंह् (raṃh, to hasten), from which रहस् (ráhas, speed) is derived.[4] This is semantically tenuous, however.

Pronunciation

Root

रह् • (rah)

  1. to part, separate
  2. to leave, quit, or abandon

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms
  • रह॑ति (ráhati, present)
  • र॒हि॒ष्यति॑ (rahiṣyáti, future)
  • र॒हि॒ता (rahitā́, periphrastic future)
  • अर॑हीत् (árahīt, aorist)
  • र॒राह॑ (rarā́ha, perfect)
Secondary forms
  • रहयति (rahayati, causative)
  • अरी॑रहत् (árīrahat, causative aorist)
Non-finite forms
Derived nominal forms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root रह् (0 c, 2 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root रह् (7 c, 0 e)

References

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976), “ráhaḥ”, in Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 49
  2. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “RAH”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 442
  3. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*raz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 322
  4. ^ William Dwight Whitney (1885), “raṅh”, in The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 133

Further reading

  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*ráhati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press