स्नावन्

From Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wn̥ (“sinew, tendon”). Cognate with Latin nervus (“sinew, tendon”), Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “sinew, tendon”), Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (snāuuar, “sinew, tendon”), Tocharian B ṣñor (“sinew”), Old English sinu (whence English sinew).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /snɑ́ː.ʋɐn/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪n̪ɑː.ʋɐn̪/

स्नावन् • (snā́van) stem, n

1. sinew, tendon, muscle
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 2.33.6:

     अस्थिभ्यस्ते मज्जभ्यः स्नावभ्यो धमनिभ्यः ।
     यक्ष्मं पाणिभ्यामङ्गुलिभ्यो नखेभ्यो वि वृहामि ते ॥

     asthibhyaste majjabhyaḥ snāvabhyo dhamanibhyaḥ.
     yakṣmaṃ pāṇibhyāmaṅgulibhyo nakhebhyo vi vṛhāmi te.

     Forth from thy marrows and thy bones, forth from thy tendons and thy veins
     I banish thy disease from thy hands, thy fingers, and thy nails.

2. bow-string
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda

• स्नायु (snāyu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्नावन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1267/1.