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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (to push, hit, strike). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ὠθέω (ōthéō, to push).

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

वध् (vadh)

  1. to strike, slay, kill, murder
  2. to defeat, destroy

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “वध्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0916.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “वध्”, 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 153
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “वध्”, 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