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Sanskrit
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Etymology
A later form of the Vedic root अत् (at, “to go constantly, walk, run”). अण्ठ् is a Buddhist-preferred variant of अट्.
Pronunciation
Root
अण्ठ् • (aṇṭh)
- to go, move, tend
Derived terms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “अण्ठ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 11/3.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 2
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 7; 9