Sanskrit

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *terd- (to drill, bore, split); compare Lithuanian trandė́ti (to thresh, grind, (of worms) to bite) and trandìs (woodworm), as well as Old Church Slavonic тродь (trodĭ, tree sponge).

Pronunciation

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Root

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तृद् (tṛd)

  1. to cleave, pierce
  2. to split open, let out, set free
  3. to destroy

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “तृद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0453/3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “तृद्”, 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 065
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “तृद्”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 633-634; 665