ध्वृ

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“to harm, injure, damage”); cognate with Hittite (duwarne-, “to break, injure”).

Pronunciation

Root

ध्वृ • (dhvṛ)

  1. to hurt, injure, bend, cause to fall

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “ध्वृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0522.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “ध्वृ”, 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 086
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “ध्वृ”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 802
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