ष्ठीव्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sp(t)yewH- (to spit, spew) (with metathesis of *-iwH- to *-iHw-, thus reflecting a pre-form *sp(t)iHw-), compare *(s)ptyēw-. Cognate with Old Armenian թուք (tʿukʿ), Persian تف (tof, spittle), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, I spit out), Latin spuo (whence English sputum), Old Church Slavonic пльвати (plĭvati), Russian плевать (plevatʹ), Old English spīwan (whence English spew).

Pronunciation

Root

ष्ठीव् (ṣṭhīv)

  1. to spit, expectorate

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), ष्ठीव्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1111.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 181
  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), ष्ठीव्”, 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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