वदति

वदति

1. Devanagari script form of vadati

• Present active participle: वदन्त् (vadant), which see for forms and usage
• Present middle participle: वदमान (vadamāna), which see for forms and usage
• Past participle: वुत्त (vutta)
• Absolutive: वदित्वा (vaditvā)

Uncertain.^[1] Perhaps inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hwádati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwádati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wédH-eti, from *h₂wedH- (“to utter, call”).^[2]

The Indo-European root is reconstructed on this basis of this term and Ancient Greek αὐδή (audḗ, “voice, sound, song, oracle”). Various scholars also compare Proto-Hellenic *awéidō (“to sing”) (> Ancient Greek ἀείδω (aeídō)), Proto-Slavic *vaditi (“to argue”), Lithuanian vadìnti (“to call”), but there is no consensus on the etymologies of those terms. Per Helmut, Hittite (watarnahh-, “to command”) is probably not cognate.

Some potential Iranian cognates also exist,^[3] including Old Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬛𐬆𐬨𐬥𐬋 (vadəmnō, “conversing?”, med.pres.ptc), Khotanese (nuvai-, “to make a noise”), Pashto لوستل (lwëstel, “to read”), and Yagnobi (novva, “sound, noise”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ́.dɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɐ.d̪ɐ.t̪i/

वद॑ति • (vádati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type P, root वद्)^[4][5][6]

1. to speak, pronounce
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.94.1:

     प्रैते व॑दन्तु॒ प्र व॒यं व॑दाम॒ ग्राव॑भ्यो॒ वाचं॑ वदता॒ वद॑द्भ्यः।
     यद॑द्रयः पर्वताः सा॒कमा॒शव॒: श्लोकं॒ घोषं॒ भर॒थेन्द्रा॑य सो॒मिन॑:॥

     praíté vadantu prá vayáṃ vadāma grā́vabhyo vā́caṃ vadatā vádadbhyaḥ.
     yádadrayaḥ parvatāḥ sākámāśáva: ślókaṃ ghóṣaṃ bhárathéndrāya somína:.

     Let these (stones) speak; let us reply to the speaking stones, and do you (priests) utter (praise); when,you solid, quick-moving stones, you utter the noise of praise together to Indra, (then you become) full of Soma.

• Pali: vadati
• Prakrit: 𑀯𑀬𑀇 (vayaï)