Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (to twist, weave, wrap) and thus related to Latin vieō (to bend, twist, weave), Lithuanian výti (to turn, wind), and Russian вить (vitʹ, to wind, twist, weave). See also वयति (vayati, to spin, weave), from the Sanskrit root वे (ve, to weave).

Pronunciation

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Root

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व्ये (vye)

  1. to cover, clothe, wrap, envelop

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “व्ये”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1041/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 167
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 592-3
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 273