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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”).
Pronunciation
Root
ग्रस् • (gras)
- to swallow, devour, seize with the mouth
- to eat, consume
- to eclipse
Derived terms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “ग्रस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0371.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “ग्रस्”, 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 040
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “ग्रस्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0404”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0404
- 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 255