हु

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Sanskrit

Alternative forms

हव् (hav)

Alternative scripts

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰaw-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaw-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦu/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɦu/

Root

हु • (hu)

to sprinkle on
to sacrifice
to offer an oblation

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root हु (0 c, 7 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root हु (3 c, 0 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

जुहोति (juhóti, Present)
होष्यति (hoṣyáti, Future)
होता (hotā́, Periphrastic Future)
अहौषीत् (áhauṣīt, Aorist)
हूयात् (hūyāt, Benedictive)
जुहाव (juhāva, Perfect)
जुहवांचकार (juhavā́ṃcakāra, Periphrastic Perfect)

Secondary Forms

हूयते (hūyáte, Passive)
अहावि (áhāvi, Passive Aorist)
हावयति (hāvayati, Causative)
अजूहवत् (ajūhavat, Causative Aorist)
जुहूषति (juhūṣati, Desiderative)
जोहवीति (johavīti, Intensive)
जोहूयते (johūyate, Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

हुत (hutá, Past Participle)
होतुम् (hótum, Infinitive)
होतोस् (hótos, Infinitive)
होतवै (hótavái, Infinitive)
हुत्वा (hutvā, Gerund)
हव्य (havyá, Gerundive)
होतव्य (hotavyà, Gerundive)
जुहूषु (juhūṣu, Desiderative Participle)

Derived Nominal Forms

हविस् (havís)
हुत् (hut)
हुति (huti)
होतृ (hótṛ)
होत्र (hotrá)
होत्रा (hótrā)
होम (hóma)
होमन् (hóman)

Prefixed Root Forms

अभिहु (abhihu)
आहु (āhu)
उपहु (upahu)
प्रतिहु (pratihu)
प्रहु (prahu)
संहु (saṃhu)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “हु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1300, column 3.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 206
Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “hu”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “HAV”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 808-9
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*g̑ʰeu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 179

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