विश्

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋíɕ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋiɕ/

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wíṭṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wíćš, from Proto-Indo-European *wiḱs (“village, household”).

Cognate with Latin vīcus, Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 (weihs, “village, place”), Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯 (vīs), Albanian vis (“place, land, country”).

विश् • (víś) stem, f

1. settlement, house
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
2. community, people, tribe
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa
3. wealth
   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa

• विश्पति (viśpáti, “chief of a settlement or tribe”)

Denominalized root derived from Etymology 1.

• वेश् (veś)

विश् • (viś)

1. to enter, enter in or settle down on, go into, pervade
2. to be absorbed into
3. (astronomy) to come into conjunction with
4. (with अग्निम्, ज्वलनम् etc.) to enter the fire (i.e. ascend the funeral pyre)
5. (with अपस्) to sink or be immersed in the water
6. to enter (a house etc.)
7. to appear (on the stage)
8. to go home or to rest
9. to sit down upon
10. to resort or betake one's self to
11. (of rivers and armies etc.) to flow into (and join with)
12. to flow or redound to, fall to the share of
13. to occur to (as a thought)
14. to befall, come to (as death)
15. to belong to, exist for
16. to fall or get into any state or condition
17. to enter upon, undertake, begin
18. to mind (any business), attend to

• Monier Williams (1899) “विश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0989/1-2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 560-1; 584