क्षरति

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *gẓʰárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gžʰárati, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰéreti from *dʰgʷʰer- (“to flow”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬖𐬲𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (γžaraⁱti), Ancient Greek φθείρω (phtheírō).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʂɐ́.ɾɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkʂɐ.ɾɐ.t̪i/

क्षरति • (kṣárati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type P, root क्षर्)

1. to flow, stream, trickle

   Synonym: स्रवति (srávati)

2. to melt away, perish, wane

   Synonym: क्षीयते (kṣīyáte)

• Monier Williams (1899) “क्षरति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0327.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “क्षरति”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 028
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “क्षरति”, 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 394