स्मि

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)mey- (to laugh, be glad). Cognate with Ancient Greek μειδᾰ́ω (meidắō, smile), Proto-Slavic *smьjàti (to laugh), Latin mīrus (wonderful) the source of English admire etc.; Latvian smieties (laugh); English smile and possibly smirk.

Pronunciation

Root

स्मि (smi)

  1. to smile, blush
  2. to become red or radiant
  3. to laugh
  4. to be proud or arrogant

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्मि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1271.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 198
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्मि”, 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) “स्मि”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press