ह्वे

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Pronunciation

Adverb

ह्वे (transliteration needed)

  1. beyond, across, on the other side

References

Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰway-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰway-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwey-, metathesized from *ǵʰéw-ye-ti, from *ǵʰewH- (to invoke, to call on).

Pronunciation

Root

ह्वे (hve)

  1. to call, call upon, summon, challenge, invoke, call on
  2. to emulate, vie with
  3. to beckon

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “ह्वे”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1308/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 206
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 809-11; 825
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 473