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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”). Cognates include Latin ung(u)ō (“I anoint”), Old Armenian օծ (ōc, “chrism”) and Old High German ancho (“butter”).
Pronunciation
Root
अञ्ज् • (añj)
- to anoint, smear
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 8.29.1:
- ब॒भ्रुरेको॒ विषु॑णः सू॒नरो॒ युवा॒ञ्ज्य॑ङ्क्ते हिर॒ण्यय॑म्॥
- babhrúréko víṣuṇaḥ sūnáro yúvāñjyàṅkte hiraṇyáyam.
Derived terms
- अक्त (aktá, “bedaubed; ointment”)
- अङ्क्त्वा (aṅktvā, “having besmeared”)
- अञ्जन (áñjana, “ointment, pigment, makeup”)
- अञ्जस् (áñjas, “ointment”)
- अञ्जि (añjí, “applying an ointment or pigment”)
- अञ्जि (añjí, “unctuous, smooth, sleek (of a penis)”)
- अनक्ति (anákti, “he anoints”)
- आज्य (ā́jya, “butter or an oil and milk mixture used at a sacrifice”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “अञ्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 11.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 2
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 54