स्विद्

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sʋid/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪ʋid̪/

From Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ῑ̔δρώς (hīdrṓs); Latin sūdō, sūdor; English sweat.

स्विद् • (svid)

1. to sweat, perspire
2. to be disturbed

Primary Verbal Forms

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Derived Nominal Forms

Prefixed Root Forms

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्विद् 2.svid”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1284, column 3.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 202

• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्विद्”, 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) “स्विद्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “svid”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “SVED”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 798-9
• 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 189
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 607
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1043”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1043

Uncertain. Possibly from सु (sú, “good, well”) +‎ इद् (íd) and similar to कुविद् (kuvíd).

स्विद् • (svid)

1. enclitic particle of interrogation, inquiry or doubt

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्विद् 1.svid”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1284, column 3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “svid”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 798