गृध्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

  • गर्ध् (gardh)

Alternative scripts

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ- (to be greedy, hungry).[1][2] Cognates include Proto-Slavic *gȏldъ (hunger), whence Russian го́лод (gólod). English greed is a false cognate.

    Pronunciation

    Root

    गृध् • (gṛdh)[3][4][5][6][7]

    1. to covet, desire, strive after greedily

    Derived terms

    Sanskrit terms belonging to the root गृध् (0 c, 4 e)
    Terms derived from the Sanskrit root गृध् (4 c, 0 e)
    Primary Verbal Forms
    • गृध्यति (gṛ́dhyati) (Present)
    • गर्धिष्यति (gardhiṣyáti) (Future)
    • गर्धिता (gardhitā) (Periphrastic Future)
    • अगृधत् (ágṛdhat) (Aorist)
    • जगर्ध (jagárdha) (Perfect)
    Secondary Forms
    Non-Finite Forms
    • गृद्ध (gṛddha) (Past Participle)
    • गृद्ध्वा (gṛddhvā) (Gerund)
    • गृध्य (gṛ́dhya) (Gerundive)
    Derived Nominal Forms
    • गर्ध (gardha)
    • गर्धिन् (gardhin)
    • गृद्धि (gṛddhi)
    • गृध्नु (gṛdhnú)
    • गृध्या (gṛdhyā)
    • गृध्र (gṛ́dhra)

    References

    1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “434”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 434
    2. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 341
    3. ^ पाणिनि [Pāṇini] (c. 600–400 BCE) धातुपाठः [Dhātupāṭhaḥ] (in Sanskrit), verse 4.161
    4. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “गृध्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 361, column 2.
    5. ^ Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गृध्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
    6. ^ William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 39
    7. ^ Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “गृध्”, 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