स्पन्द्

Uncertain. Probably Proto-Indo-European *sphend- (“to quiver”). Compare Ancient Greek σφενδόνη (sphendónē, “sling”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /spɐnd/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪pɐn̪d̪/

स्पन्द् • (spand) 1 A

1. to quiver, throb, twitch, tremble
2. to vibrate, quake, palpitate, throb with life
3. to move, be active
4. to flash into life

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्पन्द्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1268.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 196

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

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