दृह्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰarjʰ, from Proto-Indo-European *delǵʰ (to hold) or *dʰerǵʰ- (to be firm, strong, tough, hard). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дръжати (drŭžati, to hold), Lithuanian dir̃žti (to harden, become tough), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (darəzaiieiti, to attach), English dry, Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌻𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (tulgjan, to reinforce, establish).

Pronunciation

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Root

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दृह् (dṛh)

  1. to make firm, fix, strengthen
  2. to be firm or strong
  3. to grow

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “दृह्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 490/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 78
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 706-7; 742
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 135-6