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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (to shake, tremble, agitate; swing away; turn). Cognate with Old Norse veifa (flag), Old English wifer (missile), Latin vibrō whence English vibrate, veer; English weave (to wander), wave, wipe.

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Root edit

विप् (vip)

  1. to tremble, shake, shiver, vibrate, quiver, be stirred, etc.
  2. to start back through fear
  3. to agitate

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “विप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0972/3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “विप्”, 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 160
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “विप्”, 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 (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 583