स्तिघ्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (to go,climb). Cognate with Ancient Greek στοῖχος (stoîkhos), στῐ́χος (stĭ́khos); Proto-Slavic *stignǫti; English sty, stile, stair.

Pronunciation

Root

स्तिघ् • (stigh)

  1. to step, stride, mount

Derived terms

References

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