स्तॄ

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (to spread, stretch, extend), an extension of *ster (spread). Cognate with Ancient Greek στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi, spread), Latin sternō (spread), Proto-Slavic *stornà (side, land), *stérti (to extend); English strew.

Pronunciation

Root

स्तॄ (stṝ)

  1. to spread, spread out, scatter, strew

Alternative forms

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), स्तॄ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1260.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 193
  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), स्तॄ”, 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
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