आस्

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Etymology 1

    From Proto-Indo-Iranian *HáHs (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬁𐬵 (āh) and Latin ōs (“mouth”) whence English oral and orifice.

    Further cognates include Hittite 𒀀𒄿𒅖 (aiš, “mouth”), Old Church Slavonic оуста (usta, “mouth”), Old Norse óss (“mouth”) (of a river), Old Irish á (“mouth”).

    Noun

    आस् • (ā́s) stem, n

    1. mouth
      • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.19.24:
        यो हव्यान्यैरयता मनुर्हितो देव आसा सुगन्धिना ।
        विवासते वार्याणि स्वध्वरो होता देवो अमर्त्यः ॥
        yo havyānyairayatā manurhito deva āsā sugandhinā.
        vivāsate vāryāṇi svadhvaro hotā devo amartyaḥ.
        The God, the Friend of man, who bears our gifts to heaven, the God with his sweet-smelling mouth,
        Distributes, skilled in sacrifice, his precious things, Invoking Priest, Immortal God.
    2. face
    Declension
    Declension of आस्
    Singular Dual Plural
    Nominative - - -
    Vocative - - -
    Accusative - - -
    Instrumental आसा (āsā́), आ॒स॒या (āsayā́) - -
    Dative - - -
    Ablative आसः (āsáḥ) - -
    Genitive - - -
    Locative - - -

    Etymology 2

    From Proto-Indo-Iranian *HaHs-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₁s-.[1]

    Root

    आस् • (ās). Lemma: आस्ते (āste)

    1. to sit
    Derived terms

    References

    1. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 232

    Further reading

    • Monier Williams (1899) “2. ās”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 159/3.
    • Monier Williams (1899) “4. ās”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 159/3.
    • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “आस्”, 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
    • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 6f.
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