सु

See also: सु-

Garhwali

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronoun

सु (su)

he, she

Kashmiri

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [su]

Pronoun

सु • (su) m (feminine स्व, Perso-Arabic سُہ)

he: third-person remote II masculine

Determiner

सु • (su)

that

Coordinate terms

यि (yi)
हु (hu)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

सव् (sav)

Alternative scripts

সু (Assamese script)
ᬲᬸ (Balinese script)
সু (Bengali script)
𑰭𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀲𑀼 (Brahmi script)
သု (Burmese script)
સુ (Gujarati script)
ਸੁ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌸𑍁 (Grantha script)
ꦱꦸ (Javanese script)
𑂮𑂳 (Kaithi script)
ಸು (Kannada script)
សុ (Khmer script)
ສຸ (Lao script)
സു (Malayalam script)
ᠰᡠ (Manchu script)
𑘭𑘳 (Modi script)
ᠰᠤ (Mongolian script)
𑧍𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
𑐳𑐸 (Newa script)
ସୁ (Odia script)
ꢱꢸ (Saurashtra script)
𑆱𑆶 (Sharada script)
𑖭𑖲 (Siddham script)
සු (Sinhalese script)
𑪁𑩒 (Soyombo script)
𑚨𑚰 (Takri script)
ஸு (Tamil script)
సు (Telugu script)
สุ (Thai script)
སུ (Tibetan script)
𑒮𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
𑨰𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *saw-, from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press, push forth; juice, liquid, rain”). Cognate with Hittite [script needed] (šu-ú-ez-zi /⁠šuwezi⁠/, “to push (away), shove, cast off”), Younger Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬥𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hunaoⁱti, “to press”), Lithuanian sáuja (handful), Proto-West Germanic *sauw (“juice”), Old Irish suth (“juice, milk”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /su/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪u/

Root

सु • (su)

to press out, extract (especially the juice from the soma plant for libations)
to distill, prepare (wines, spirits, etc.)

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root सु (0 c, 1 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root सु (3 c, 0 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

सुनोति (sunóti) (Present)
सोष्यति (soṣyáti) (Future)
सविष्यति (saviṣyáti) (Future)
सोता (sotā́) (Periphrastic Future)
असौषीत् (ásauṣīt) (Aorist)
असावीत् (ásāvīt) (Aorist)
असोत् (ásot) (Aorist)
सुषाव (suṣā́va) (Perfect)

Secondary Forms

सूयते (sūyáte) (Passive)
असावि (ásāvi) (Passive Aorist)
सावयति (sāváyati) (Causative)
असुषोत् (ásuṣot) (Causative Aorist)
असूषवत् (ásūṣavat) (Causative Aorist)
सुसूषति (susūṣati) (Desiderative)
सुषावयिषति (suṣāvayiṣati) (Desiderative of Causative)
सोषूयते (soṣūyate) (Intensive)
सोषोति (soṣoti) (Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

सुत (sutá) (Past Participle)
सोतुम् (sotum) (Infinitive)
सोतवे (sótave) (Infinitive)
सोतोस् (sótos) (Infinitive)
सुत्वा (sutvā) (Gerund)
सुत्य (sútya) (Gerund)
सोत्व (sótva) (Gerundive)

Derived Nominal Forms

सव (savá)
सवन (sávana)
साव (sāvá)
सुत् (sut)
सुति (suti)
सुत्य (sutya)
सुत्या (sutyā)
सुत्वन् (sútvan)
सुष्वि (súṣvi)
सोतु (sótu)
सोतृ (sotṛ́)
सोम (sóma)
सोमन् (somán)

Prefixed Root Forms

अभिषु (abhiṣu)
आसु (āsu)
प्रसु (prasu)
संसु (saṃsu)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “सु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1219, column 2.
William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 187

Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “सु”, 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
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “सु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press

Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “?*seu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 537
Pokorny, Julius (1959) “912”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 912

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 713-4
^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 451-2

[1] Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 713-4

[2] Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 451-2

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