अम्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (“to seize, take hold; swear”). Cognate with Old Norse ama (“to bother, wound”) and possibly Latin amō (“to love”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐm/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɐm/

Root

अम् • (am)

1. to injure, be harmful, perishable
2. to go
3. to serve, swear
4. to seize violently

Derived terms

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “अम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0080.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 03
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “अम्”, 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

• 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 277
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 0778, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0778