Sanskrit

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *tus-, zero-grade of *tews- (to be happy).

Pronunciation

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Root

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तुष् (tuṣ)

  1. to like (with inst.), become calm, be satisfied or pleased with anyone or anything
  2. to satisfy, please, appease, gratify
    अपि मम काव्येन तुष्यसिapi mama kāvyena tuṣyasiI too am pleased by wisdom

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Descendants

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  • Punjabi: ਤੁਸ (tus, sate)

References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “तुष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 452/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 64
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 659; 672