स्वन्

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Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (to sound). Cognate with Latin sonō the source of English sound, sonic etc.; Old English swinn (melody), English swan.

Pronunciation

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Root

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स्वन् (svan)

  1. to sound
  2. to make any noise, roar, yell
  3. to hum, sing

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्वन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1280.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 201
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्वन्”, 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) “स्वन्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press