सृप्

Sanskrit

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *serp-

Sanskrit सृप् (sṛp)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sarp-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sarp-, from Proto-Indo-European *serp- (“to creep, crawl”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἕρπω (hérpō, “creep, crawl”) whence ἕρπης (hérpēs), Proto-Albanian *serpena, Latin serpō whence serpēns (“serpent”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /sr̩p/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪r̩p/

Root

सृप् • (sṛp)

to creep, crawl, glide, slink
to move gently or cautiously
to slip into

Derived terms

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

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root सृप् (10 c, 0 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

सर्प॑ति (sárpati) (Present)
सर्पते (sarpate) (Present)
सर्प्स्यति (sarpsyati) (Future)
स्रप्स्यति (srapsyati) (Future)
सर्प्ता (sarptā) (Periphrastic Future)
स्रप्ता (sraptā) (Periphrastic Future)
असृप्त (asṛpta) (Aorist)
असृप्त (asṛpta) (Aorist)
असार्प्सीत् (asārpsīt) (Aorist)
अस्राप्सीत् (asrāpsīt) (Aorist)
ससर्प (sasarpa) (Perfect)

Secondary Forms

सर्पयति (sarpayati) (Causative)
सिसृ॑प्सति (sísṛpsati) (Desiderative)
सरीसृप्यते (sarīsṛpyate) (Intensive)
सरीसर्प्ति (sarīsarpti) (Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

सर्पितुम् (sarpitum) (Infinitive)
सर्प्तुम् (sarptum) (Infinitive)
स्रप्तुम् (sraptum) (Infinitive)
सृप्त्वा (sṛptvā) (Gerund)
सृप्य॑ (sṛ́pya) (Gerund)

Derived Nominal Forms

स॒र्प (sarpá)
सृ॒प्र (sṛprá)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “सृप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1245.
William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 190

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

Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 400
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 536
Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0912”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0912