यत्

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /jɐt/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /jɐt̪/

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *yat- (“to reach, take position”), from Proto-Indo-European *yet- (“to bring, conform, support”); cognate with Persian فریاد (faryâd, “cry, shout”), Tocharian A yät- (“to adorn”), and possibly Latin nītor (“support oneself, brace oneself”) and Ancient Greek ὅσιος (hósios, “just, fair”).

यत् • (yat)

1. to place in order, marshal, join, connect
2. to keep pace, be in line, rival or vie with
3. (middle voice) to join, associate with, march or fly together or in line
4. (middle voice) to conform or comply with
5. (middle voice) to meet, encounter (in battle)
6. (middle voice) to seek to join one's self with, make for, tend towards
7. (middle voice) to endeavour to reach, strive after, be eager or anxious for
8. (middle voice) to exert one's self, take pains, endeavour, make effort, persevere, be cautious or watchful
9. (middle voice) to be prepared for
10. (causative) to join, unite, attach to
11. (causative) to cause to fight
12. (causative) to strive to obtain anything
13. (causative) to requite, return, reward or punish, reprove
14. (causative) to surrender or yield up anything to
15. (causative) to distress, torture, vex, annoy

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Prefixed Root Forms

• Monier Williams (1899) “यत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 840, column 3.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 129

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “yat”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “YAT”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 394-5
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “yat”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 612-3
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*i̯at”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 214-5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

यत् • (yát)

1. nominative/accusative singular neuter of यद् (yád)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

यत् • (yát) present active participle (root इ)

1. present active participle of एति (éti): going