योस्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hyáwṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hyáwš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéws (gen.sg.), from *h₂yew- (justice, law). Cognate with Latin iūs.

Pronunciation

Noun

योस् • (yós) stem? (indeclinable)

  1. welfare, health, happiness

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “योस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 858, column 3.
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 621