स्विद्

Sanskrit

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (to sweat). Cognate with Ancient Greek ῑ̔δρώς (hīdrṓs); Latin sūdō, sūdor; English sweat.

    Root

    स्विद् • (svid)

    1. to sweat, perspire
    2. to be disturbed
    Derived terms
    Primary verbal forms
    • स्वेद॑ते (svédate, present)
    • स्विद्यति (svidyati, present)
    • स्वेत्स्यति (svetsyati, future)
    • स्वेत्ता (svettā, periphrastic future)
    • अस्विदत् (asvidat, aorist)
    • स्विद्यात् (svidyāt, benedictive)
    • सिष्विदे (siṣvide, perfect)
    Secondary forms
    • स्वेदयति (svedayati, causative)
    • असिष्विदत् (asiṣvidat, causative aorist)
    • सिष्वित्सति (siṣvitsati, desiderative)
    • सेष्विद्यते (seṣvidyate, intensive)
    • सेष्वेत्ति (seṣvetti, intensive)
    Non-finite forms
    • स्वि॒न्न (svinná, past participle)
    • स्वेदम् (svedam, gerund)
    • स्वेद्य (svedya, gerundive)
    • स्वेदनीय (svedanīya, gerundive)
    Derived nominal forms
    Prefixed root forms
    • आस्विद् (āsvid)
    • प्रस्विद् (prasvid)
    Sanskrit terms belonging to the root स्विद् (0 c, 3 e)
    Terms derived from the Sanskrit root स्विद् (4 c, 0 e)

    References

    • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “स्विद्”, 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), “स्विद्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
    • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “svid”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “SVED”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 798-9
    • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 189
    • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 607
    • Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1043

    Etymology 2

      Uncertain. Possibly from सु (, good, well) +‎ इद् (íd) and similar to कुविद् (kuvíd).

      Particle

      स्विद् • (svid)

      1. enclitic particle of interrogation, inquiry or doubt

      References

      • Monier Williams (1899), “स्विद् 1.svid”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1284, column 3.
      • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “svid”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 798