Sanskrit edit

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *wert- (to turn).

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

वृत् (vṛt)

  1. to turn, to rotate

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “वृत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1009/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 164
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 518-519