सद्

Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Cognates include Latin sedeō, Old Church Slavonic сѣдѣти (sěděti), Old English sittan (whence English sit).

Pronunciation

Root

सद् • (sad).

  1. to sit down
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 08.029.02:
      yónim éka ā́ sasāda diyótano
      antár devéṣu médhiraḥ
      In the womb this one has sat down flashing,
      the wise one among the gods. (A riddle, answer: Agni)

Derived terms

References
  • Monier Williams (1899), “सद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1138/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 183
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 692-3
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