अद्

See also: अदा

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Had-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Had-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-. Cognates include Avestan 𐬀𐬛‎ (ad‎), Hittite 𒂊𒀉𒈪 (e-id-mi, “I eat”), Ancient Greek ἔδω (édō), Latin edō, Old Armenian ուտեմ (utem, “to eat”), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan), Old Church Slavonic ꙗсти (jasti), Old Irish estir (“he may eat”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐd/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐd̪/

Root

अद् • (ad)

1. to eat

Derived terms

• अग्राद्वन् (agrādvan, “having precedence in eating”)
• अत्तव्य (attavya, “fit to be eaten”)
• अत्ति (attí, “eater”)
• अत्ति (átti, “he eats”)
• अत्तृ (attṛ́, “eater”)
• अत्र (atrá, “devourer, demon”)
• अत्र (átra, “food”)
• अत्रि (átri, “devourer”)
• अत्रिन् (atrín, “devourer, demon”)
• अदक (adaka, “eating”)
• अदन (adana, “food”)
• अदनीय (adanīya, “which is to be eaten”)
• अद्मन् (ádman, “a meal”)
• अन्न (ánna, “food”)
• अन्नाद्य (annādya, “proper food”)
• आदिन् (ādin, “eating, devouring”)
• आद्य (ādya, “edible”)
• मत्स्याद् (matsyād, “eating fish”)
• हविरद्य (haviradya, “the act of eating the oblation”)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “अद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 17.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 3