Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *puH- (to be foul, rotten; stink). Cognate with Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon), Latin pūs (pus), Latin putridus (putrid), Lithuanian pū́ti (to rot), Old English fūl whence English foul.

Pronunciation

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Root

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पूय् (pūy)

  1. to become foul or putrid
  2. to stink

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “पूय्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0641.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 099
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “पूय्”, 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