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Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sráydʰati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sráydʰati, from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old English slīdan (whence English slide).
Pronunciation
Verb
स्रेधति • (srédhati) third-singular present indicative (root स्रिध्, class 1, type P) (Vedic) (pronounced sráidhati)
- to err, make a mistake, blunder
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 5.54.7:
- न स जीयते मरुतो न हन्यते न स्रेधति न व्यथते न रिष्यति।
नास्य राय उप दस्यन्ति नोतय ऋषिं वा यं राजानं वा सुषूदथ॥- na sa jīyate maruto na hanyate na sredhati na vyathate na riṣyati.
nāsya rāya upa dasyanti notaya ṛṣiṃ vā yaṃ rājānaṃ vā suṣūdatha. - Never is he, O Maruts, slain or overcome, never doth he decay ne' er is distressed or harmed;
His treasures, his resources, never waste away, whom. whether he be prince or Rsi, ye direct.
- to fail