दृति

Sanskrit

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দৃতি (Assamese script)
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த்³ரிதி (Tamil script)
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ทฺฤติ (Thai script)
དྲྀ་ཏི (Tibetan script)
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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *der-

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Sanskrit दृति॑ (dṛ́ti)

From Proto-Indo-European *dér-ti-s ~ *dr̥-téy-s, from *der- (“to tear, to skin”). Distantly related to Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”); more closely to Ancient Greek δάρσις (dársis), Proto-Germanic *turþiz.

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /dŕ̩.ti/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪r̩.t̪i/

Noun

दृति • (dṛ́ti) stem, m

waterskin (a leather bag for holding liquids)
- c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 4.45.1:
  ए॒ष स्य भा॒नुर् उद् इ॑यर्ति यु॒ज्यते॒ रथः॒ परि॑ज्मा दि॒वो अ॒स्य सान॑वि ।
  पृ॒क्षासो॑ अस्मिन् मिथु॒ना अधि॒ त्रयो॒ दृति॑स् तु॒रीयो॒ मधु॑नो॒ वि र॑प्शते ॥
  eṣá syá bhānúr úd iyarti yujyáte ráthaḥ párijmā divó asyá sā́navi.
  pṛkṣā́so asmin mithunā́ ádhi tráyo dṛ́tis turī́yo mádhuno ví rapśate.
  Yonder goes up that light: your chariot is yoked that travels round upon the summit of this heaven.
  Within this car are stored three kindred shares of food, and a skin-bag filled with mead is rustling as the fourth.
bellows (a leather device used for blowing air into a fire)
- c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 6.18.3:
  अ॒दो यत् ते॑ हृ॒दि श्रि॒तं म॑न॒स्कं प॑तयिष्णु॒कम् ।
  तत॑स् त ई॒र्ष्यां मु॑ञ्चामि॒ निर् ऊ॒ष्माणं॒ दृते॑र् इव ॥
  adó yát te hṛdí śritáṃ manaskáṃ patayiṣṇukám.
  tátas ta īrṣyā́ṃ muñcāmi nír ūṣmā́ṇaṃ dṛ́ter iva.
  The thought that harbours in your heart, the fluttering doubt that dwells therein.
  Yea, all your jealousy, like hot air from the bellows, I release thence.

Declension

Masculine i-stem declension of दृति
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	दृतिः (dṛ́tiḥ)	दृती (dṛ́tī)	दृतयः (dṛ́tayaḥ)
accusative	दृतिम् (dṛ́tim)	दृती (dṛ́tī)	दृतीन् (dṛ́tīn)
instrumental	दृतिना (dṛ́tinā) दृत्या¹ (dṛ́tyā¹)	दृतिभ्याम् (dṛ́tibhyām)	दृतिभिः (dṛ́tibhiḥ)
dative	दृतये (dṛ́taye)	दृतिभ्याम् (dṛ́tibhyām)	दृतिभ्यः (dṛ́tibhyaḥ)
ablative	दृतेः (dṛ́teḥ) दृत्यः¹ (dṛ́tyaḥ¹)	दृतिभ्याम् (dṛ́tibhyām)	दृतिभ्यः (dṛ́tibhyaḥ)
genitive	दृतेः (dṛ́teḥ) दृत्यः¹ (dṛ́tyaḥ¹)	दृत्योः (dṛ́tyoḥ)	दृतीनाम् (dṛ́tīnām)
locative	दृतौ (dṛ́tau) दृता¹ (dṛ́tā¹)	दृत्योः (dṛ́tyoḥ)	दृतिषु (dṛ́tiṣu)
vocative	दृते (dṛ́te)	दृती (dṛ́tī)	दृतयः (dṛ́tayaḥ)

¹Vedic

Descendants

Prakrit: 𑀤𑀇 (daï), 𑀤𑀺𑀇 (dii)
- Old Gujarati: दइडउ (daïḍaü, “leather ball”) (with Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀟- (-ḍa-) + -𑀓- (-ka-))
  - Gujarati: દેડો (deḍo)
Ashokan Prakrit: *𑀤𑀺𑀢𑀺 (*diti)
- → Proto-South Dravidian I: *titi (“bellows”)
  - Kannada: ತಿದಿ (tidi, “bellows”)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “दृति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 491.