Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (to seize, take hold; swear). Cognate with Old Norse ama (to bother, wound) and possibly Latin amō (to love).

Pronunciation

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Root

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अम् (am)

  1. to injure, be harmful, perishable
  2. to go
  3. to serve, swear
  4. to seize violently

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “अम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0080.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 03
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “अम्”, 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