वध्

• बध् (badh)

From Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to push, hit, strike”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ὠθέω (ōthéō, “to push”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐdʱ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋɐd̪ʱ/

वध् • (vadh)

1. to strike, slay, kill, murder
2. to defeat, destroy

In Vedic, this root supplies the aorist for हन् (han).

Primary Verbal Forms

Secondary Forms

Derived Nominal Forms

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• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “वध्”, 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

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