सु

See also: सु-

Garhwali

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronoun

सु (su)

he, she

Kashmiri

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [su]

Pronoun

सु • (su) m (feminine स्व, Perso-Arabic سُہ)

he: third-person remote II masculine

Determiner

सु • (su)

that

Coordinate terms

यि (yi)
हु (hu)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

सव् (sav)

Alternative scripts

সু (Assamese script)
ᬲᬸ (Balinese script)
সু (Bengali script)
𑰭𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀲𑀼 (Brahmi script)
သု (Burmese script)
સુ (Gujarati script)
ਸੁ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌸𑍁 (Grantha script)
ꦱꦸ (Javanese script)
𑂮𑂳 (Kaithi script)
ಸು (Kannada script)
សុ (Khmer script)
ສຸ (Lao script)
സു (Malayalam script)
ᠰᡠ (Manchu script)
𑘭𑘳 (Modi script)
ᠰᠤ (Mongolian script)
𑧍𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
𑐳𑐸 (Newa script)
ସୁ (Odia script)
ꢱꢸ (Saurashtra script)
𑆱𑆶 (Sharada script)
𑖭𑖲 (Siddham script)
සු (Sinhalese script)
𑪁𑩒 (Soyombo script)
𑚨𑚰 (Takri script)
ஸு (Tamil script)
సు (Telugu script)
สุ (Thai script)
སུ (Tibetan script)
𑒮𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
𑨰𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *saw-, from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press, push forth; juice, liquid, rain”). Cognate with Hittite 𒋗𒌑𒄑𒍣 (šu-ú-ez-zi /⁠šuwezi⁠/, “to push (away), shove, cast off”), Younger Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬥𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hunaoⁱti, “to press”), Lithuanian sáuja (handful), Proto-West Germanic *sauw (“juice”), Old Irish suth (“juice, milk”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /su/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪u/

Root

सु • (su)

to press out, extract (especially the juice from the soma plant for libations)
to distill, prepare (wines, spirits, etc.)

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

सु॒नोति॑ (sunóti, present)
सो॒ष्यति॑ (soṣyáti, future)
स॒वि॒ष्यति॑ (saviṣyáti, future)
सो॒ता (sotā́, periphrastic future)
असौ॑षीत् (ásauṣīt, aorist)
असा॑वीत् (ásāvīt, aorist)
असो॑त् (ásot, aorist)
सु॒षाव॑ (suṣā́va, perfect)

Secondary forms

सू॒यते॑ (sūyáte, passive)
असा॑वि (ásāvi, passive aorist)
सा॒वय॑ति (sāváyati, causative)
असु॑षोत् (ásuṣot, causative aorist)
असू॑षवत् (ásūṣavat, causative aorist)
सुसूषति (susūṣati, desiderative)
सुषावयिषति (suṣāvayiṣati, desiderative of causative)
सोषूयते (soṣūyate, intensive)
सोषोति (soṣoti, intensive)

Non-finite forms

सु॒त (sutá, past participle)
सोतुम् (sotum, infinitive)
सोत॑वे (sótave, infinitive)
सोतो॑स् (sótos, infinitive)
सुत्वा (sutvā, gerund)
सुत्य॑ (sútya, gerund)
सोत्व॑ (sótva, gerundive)

Derived nominal forms

स॒व (savá)
सव॑न (sávana)
सा॒व (sāvá)
सुत् (sut)
सुति (suti)
सुत्य (sutya)
सुत्या (sutyā)
सुत्व॑न् (sútvan)
सुष्वि॑ (súṣvi)
सोतु॑ (sótu)
सो॒तृ (sotṛ́)
सोम॑ (sóma)
सो॒मन् (somán)

Prefixed root forms

अभिषु (abhiṣu)
आसु (āsu)
प्रसु (prasu)
संसु (saṃsu)

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root सु (0 c, 2 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root सु (5 c, 0 e)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “सु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1219, column 2.
William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 187

Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “सु”, 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
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “सु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press

Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “?*seu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 537
Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 912

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 713-4
^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 451-2

[1] Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 713-4

[2] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 451-2

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