श्रि

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Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-
    Sanskrit श्रि (śri)

    From Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean, incline”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “lean”), giving κλῖμᾰξ (klîmăx, “ladder, staircase; climax”), κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă, “slope”) whence English climate; Latin clīnō (“lean”) whence English incline etc; English lean, Proto-Germanic *hlaidrijō whence English ladder.

    Pronunciation

    Root

    श्रि • (śri)

    1. to lean, rest, recline, cling to
    2. to approach, resort to, tend to

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    Sanskrit terms belonging to the root श्रि (0 c, 3 e)
    Terms derived from the Sanskrit root श्रि (3 c, 0 e)
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    References

    • Monier Williams (1899) “श्रि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1098, column 1.
    • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “श्रि”, 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 179
    • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “श्रि”, 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
    • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “śri”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “ŚRAY”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 665
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