व्युष्टि

From वि- (ví-, “about; in different directions”) + Proto-Indo-European *h₂us-tí-s, from the root *h₂ews- (“dawn”). Related to उषस् (uṣas).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋí.juʂ.ʈi/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋjuʂ.ʈi/

व्युष्टि • (vyùṣṭi) stem, f (metrical Vedic víyuṣṭi)

1. the first gleam or breaking of dawn; daybreak
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 4.23.5:

     कथा कदस्या उषसो व्युष्टौ देवो मर्तस्य सख्यं जुजोष ।
     कथा कदस्य सख्यं सखिभ्यो ये अस्मिन्कामं सुयुजं ततस्रे ॥

     kathā kadasyā uṣaso vyuṣṭau devo martasya sakhyaṃ jujoṣa.
     kathā kadasya sakhyaṃ sakhibhyo ye asminkāmaṃ suyujaṃ tatasre.

     How, and what bond of friendship with a mortal hath the God chosen at the breaking of this morn?
     How, and what love hath he for those who love him, who have entwined in him their firm affection?

• उषस् (uṣas)
• उष् (uṣ)
• व्युष् (vyuṣ)

• Monier Williams (1899) “व्युष्टि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1040.