सृ

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to spring, jump”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἅλλομαι (hállomai, “to jump”), ἁλτῆρες (haltêres) giving English haltere; Latin saliō (“jump”) whence English (somer)sault.

Not to be confused with स्रु (sru, “to flow, leak”) from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”).

Pronunciation

Root

सृ • (sṛ)

  1. to spring, run
  2. to flow, speed, glide, move

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root सृ (0 c, 6 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root सृ (8 c, 0 e)
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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “सृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1244, column 3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 189
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “सृ”, 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
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “सृ”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “sṛ”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 705-706
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