क्षु

Sanskrit

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kṣú, from a zero-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰas- (“to eat”).

क्षु • (kṣú) stem, n

Neuter u-stem declension of क्षु (kṣú)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	क्षु kṣú	क्षुणी kṣúṇī	क्षूणि / क्षु¹ / क्षू¹ kṣū́ṇi / kṣú¹ / kṣū́¹
Vocative	क्षु / क्षो kṣú / kṣó	क्षुणी kṣúṇī	क्षूणि / क्षु¹ / क्षू¹ kṣū́ṇi / kṣú¹ / kṣū́¹
Accusative	क्षु kṣú	क्षुणी kṣúṇī	क्षूणि / क्षु¹ / क्षू¹ kṣū́ṇi / kṣú¹ / kṣū́¹
Instrumental	क्षुणा / क्ष्वा¹ kṣúṇā / kṣvā́¹	क्षुभ्याम् kṣúbhyām	क्षुभिः kṣúbhiḥ
Dative	क्षुणे / क्षवे¹ kṣúṇe / kṣáve¹	क्षुभ्याम् kṣúbhyām	क्षुभ्यः kṣúbhyaḥ
Ablative	क्षुणः / क्षोः¹ kṣúṇaḥ / kṣóḥ¹	क्षुभ्याम् kṣúbhyām	क्षुभ्यः kṣúbhyaḥ
Genitive	क्षुणः / क्षोः¹ kṣúṇaḥ / kṣóḥ¹	क्षुणोः kṣúṇoḥ	क्षूणाम् kṣūṇā́m
Locative	क्षुणि / क्षौ¹ kṣúṇi / kṣaú¹	क्षुणोः kṣúṇoḥ	क्षुषु kṣúṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ksew- or *skew- (“to sneeze”).

क्षु • (kṣu)

Monier Williams (1899) “क्षु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0330.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 030
Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “क्षु”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “क्षु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press

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 193