इति

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

Cognate to Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬬 (uiti, ūitī). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronunciation

Particle

इति • (íti) (base इ)

  1. in this manner, thus (used to delimit quotes)
    • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata 3.195.7:
      समुद्र वालुकापूर्ण उज्जानक इति स्मृतः।
      आगम्य च स दुष्टात्मा तं देशं भरतर्षभ।
      बाधते स्म परं शक्त्या तम उदङ्काश्रमं प्रभो॥
      samudra vālukāpūrṇa ujjānaka iti smṛtaḥ.
      āgamya ca sa duṣṭātmā taṃ deśaṃ bharatarṣabha.
      bādhate sma paraṃ śaktyā tama udaṅkāśramaṃ prabho.
  2. as you know
  3. having done, then
    इत्य् उक्त्वा ― ity uktvā ― having said thus

Descendants

  • Pali: iti

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “इति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 165/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 103; 189
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