गुह्

Sanskrit edit

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From *gʰawȷ́ʰ- (“to hide, conceal”). See गूहति (gūhati) for cognates.

गुह् • (guh)

गुह् • (gúh) stem, f

a hiding place, cave, den, lair
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.67.6:
  प्रिया पदानि पश्वो नि पाहि विश्वायुरग्ने गुहा गुहं गाः ॥
  priyā padāni paśvo ni pāhi viśvāyuragne guhā guhaṃ gāḥ .
  O Agni, guard the spots which cattle love: thou, life of all, hast gone from lair to lair.

Feminine root-stem declension of गुह् (gúh)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	घुट् ghúṭ	गुहौ / गुहा¹ gúhau / gúhā¹	गुहः gúhaḥ
Vocative	घुट् ghúṭ	गुहौ / गुहा¹ gúhau / gúhā¹	गुहः gúhaḥ
Accusative	गुहम् gúham	गुहौ / गुहा¹ gúhau / gúhā¹	गुहः gúhaḥ
Instrumental	गुहा guhā́	घुड्भ्याम् ghuḍbhyā́m	घुड्भिः ghuḍbhíḥ
Dative	गुहे guhé	घुड्भ्याम् ghuḍbhyā́m	घुड्भ्यः ghuḍbhyáḥ
Ablative	गुहः guháḥ	घुड्भ्याम् ghuḍbhyā́m	घुड्भ्यः ghuḍbhyáḥ
Genitive	गुहः guháḥ	गुहोः guhóḥ	गुहाम् guhā́m
Locative	गुहि guhí	गुहोः guhóḥ	घुट्सु ghuṭsú
Notes	¹Vedic

Monier Williams (1899) “गुह्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0360.
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गुह्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 038
Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “गुह्”, 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