च्युत

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyutás, from Proto-Indo-European *kyu-tós, from *kyew- (“to set in motion”). By surface analysis, च्यु (cyu, root) +‎ -त (-ta).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕju.tɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕju.t̪ɐ/

च्यु॒त • (cyutá) stem (root च्यु)

1. moved, shaken
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 9.2.15:

     च्युता चेयं बृहत्यच्युता च विद्युद्बिभर्ति स्तनयित्नूंश्च सर्वान् ।
     उद्यन्न् आदित्यो द्रविणेन तेजसा नीचैः सपत्नान् नुदतां मे सहस्वान् ॥

     cyutā ceyaṃ bṛhatyacyutā ca vidyudbibharti stanayitnūṃśca sarvān.
     udyann ādityo draviṇena tejasā nīcaiḥ sapatnān nudatāṃ me sahasvān.

     • 1895 translation by Ralph T. H. Griffith

       This potent lightning nourishes things shaken, and things unshaken yet, and all the thunders.
       May the Sun, rising with his wealth and splendour, drive in victorious might my foemen downward.

2. gone away
   1. flying away
   2. expelled from, deprived of
3. destitute of; abandoned by (in compounds)
4. disappeared, vanished
5. come forth from, dropped from, fallen (from)
   1. (Buddhism, Jainism) fallen from divinity
   2. sunk (morally)

• Prakrit: 𑀘𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀓 (cukka, “fallen, erred, forgotten”)
  • ⇒ Prakrit: 𑀘𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀇 (cukkaï) (see there for further descendants)

• Monier Williams (1899) “च्युत”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 403.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*cukk”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 263