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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *serp- (to creep, crawl). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἕρπω (hérpō, creep, crawl) whence ἕρπης (hérpēs), Proto-Albanian *serpena, Latin serpō whence serpēns (serpent).

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

सृप् (sṛp)

  1. to creep, crawl, glide, slink
  2. to move gently or cautiously
  3. to slip into

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “सृप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1245.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 190
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “सृप्”, 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
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “सृप्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press