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Sanskrit
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet, moist”).
Root
उक्ष् • (ukṣ)
- to sprinkle, scatter in small drops
- to moisten
- to emit, throw out
- to emit seed(as a bull)
Derived terms
Category Terms derived from the Sanskrit root उक्ष् not found
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
- उक्ष् (ukṣ)
- उक्षण (úkṣaṇa)
- Prefixed Root Forms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Root
उक्ष् • (ukṣ)
- Alternative form of वक्ष् (vakṣ, “to grow”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “ukṣ-”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 172.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 11
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “ukṣ”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “उक्ष्”, 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
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*u̯egu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 662
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “84”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 84