वी

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋíː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋiː/

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wíH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wíH, from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-.

• वय् (vay)

वी • (vī)

1. to go, move, approach (either as a friend i.e. ‘seek or take eagerly, grasp, seize, accept, enjoy’, or as an enemy i.e. ‘fall upon, attack, assail, visit, punish, avenge’)
2. to set in motion, arouse, excite, impel, move, push
3. to further, promote, lead or bring or help anyone to
4. to get, procure
5. to impregnate
6. to enjoy
7. to be strong, powerful
8. to hunt, chase, pursue

Primary Verbal Forms

Secondary Forms

Non-Finite Forms

Derived Nominal Forms

वी • (vī́) stem

1. going to, eager for, desirous or fond of (genitive)
2. set in motion

वी • (vī) stem, m

1. the act of going, motion

वि- (vi-) +‎ इ (i)

वी • (vī)

1. to go apart or in different directions, diverge, be diffused or scattered or distributed or divided or extended
2. to be lost, perish, disappear
3. to go through, pass through, traverse

Primary Verbal Forms

Non-Finite Forms

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

वी • (vī́) m

1. nominative/vocative/accusative dual of वि (ví, “bird”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “वी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1004, column 1.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 161
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “VAY^I”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 509-10