हु

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰaw-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaw-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”).

Pronunciation

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

Root

हु • (hu)

to sprinkle on
to sacrifice
to offer an oblation

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

जु॒होति॑ (juhóti, present)
हो॒ष्यति॑ (hoṣyáti, future)
हो॒ता (hotā́, periphrastic future)
अहौ॑षीत् (áhauṣīt, aorist)
हूयात् (hūyāt, benedictive)
जुहाव (juhāva, perfect)
जु॒ह॒वांच॑कार (juhavā́ṃcakāra, periphrastic perfect)

Secondary forms

हू॒यते॑ (hūyáte, passive)
अहा॑वि (áhāvi, passive aorist)
हावयति (hāvayati, causative)
अजूहवत् (ajūhavat, causative aorist)
जुहूषति (juhūṣati, desiderative)
जोहवीति (johavīti, intensive)
जोहूयते (johūyate, intensive)

Non-finite forms

हु॒त (hutá, past participle)
होतु॑म् (hótum, infinitive)
होतो॑स् (hótos, infinitive)
होत॒वै (hótavái, infinitive)
हुत्वा (hutvā, gerund)
ह॒व्य (havyá, gerundive)
हो॒त॒व्य॑ (hotavyà, gerundive)
जुहूषु (juhūṣu, desiderative participle)

Derived nominal forms

ह॒विस् (havís)
हुत् (hut)
हुति (huti)
होतृ॑ (hótṛ)
हो॒त्र (hotrá)
होत्रा॑ (hótrā)
होम॑ (hóma)
होम॑न् (hóman)

Prefixed root forms

अभिहु (abhihu)
आहु (āhu)
उपहु (upahu)
प्रतिहु (pratihu)
प्रहु (prahu)
संहु (saṃhu)

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root हु (0 c, 8 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root हु (4 c, 0 e)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “हु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1300, column 3.
William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 206

Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “hu”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “HAV”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 808-9
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*g̑ʰeu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 179