गम्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬨 (gam), Latin veniō, Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), Old English cuman (whence English come).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɐm/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɡɐm/

Root

गम् • (gam)

to go, move, come

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

गच्छ॑ति (gácchati, Present)
गन्ति॑ (gánti, Present)
ग॒मि॒ष्यति॑ (gamiṣyáti, Future)
ग॒न्ता (gantā́, Periphrastic Future)
अग॑मत् (ágamat, Aorist)
अग॑न् (ágan, Aorist)
अगं॑स्त (ágaṃsta, Aorist)
ग॒म्यात् (gamyā́t, Benedictive)
ज॒गाम॑ (jagā́ma, Perfect)

Secondary forms

ग॒म्यते॑ (gamyáte, Passive)
अगामि (agāmi, Passive Aorist)
अगमि (agami, Passive Aorist)
ग॒मय॑ति (gamáyati, Causative)
जिगमिषति (jigamiṣati, Desiderative)
जिगांसति (jigāṃsati, Desiderative)
गनी॑गन्ति (gánīganti, Intensive)
जङ्गन्ति (jaṅganti, Intensive)
जङ्गमीति (jaṅgamīti, Intensive)
जङ्गम्यते (jaṅgamyate, Intensive)

Non-finite forms

गत (gatá, “gone, departed, deceased; gone by; come”)
गन्तु॑म् (gántum, Infinitive)
गन्तो॑स् (gántos, Infinitive)
गन्त॑वे (gántave, Infinitive)
गन्त॑वै (gántavái, Infinitive)
ग॒त्वा (gatvā́, Gerund)
ग॒त्वाय॑ (gatvā́ya, Gerund)
ग॒त्वी (gatvī́, Gerund)
गम्य (gamya, Gerundive)
ग॒न्त॒व्य॑ (gantavyà, Gerundive)

Derived nominal forms

गति (gáti, “going”)
जगत् (jágat, “moving, animal, world”)
ग (ga, “going”)
गङ्गा (gaṅgā, “swift-goer, the Ganges”)
गच्छ (gaccha, “lineage”)
गम (gama, “going, course”)
गमिन् (gamin, “intending to go”)
गमन (gámana, “manner of going”)
गमनीय (gamanīya, “accessible, approachable”)
गमिष्ठ (gámiṣṭha, “most ready to go, most willing to come”)
गमिष्णु (gamiṣṇú, “going”)
अध्वगत् (adhvagat, “traveller”)
सुगन्त्व (sugantva, “easily passed”)
गन्तृ (gantṛ, “goer, mover, comer”)
पूर्वगत्वन् (pūrvagatvan, “going to meet”)
गत्वर (gatvara, “going to a place”)
गामिन् (gāmin, “going anywhere”)
गामुक (gāmuka, “going”)
पृथुग्मन् (pṛthugman, “broad-pathed”)
गमयितृ (gamayitṛ, “causing to arrive at, leading to”)
गमयितव्य (gamayitavya, “spent (time)”)
जग्मि (jágmi, “going, being in constant motion”)
जिगत्नु (jigatnú, “going quickly, fleet”)
जङ्गम (jaṅgama, “moving, locomotive”)
जङ्गमन (jaṅgamana, “course”)
जिगमिषु (jigamiṣu, “intending to go”)
दुर्ग (durga, “unattainable, difficult to approach”)
दुर्गा (durgā, Durga; literally "difficult to approach")
संगम (saṃgamá, “a coming together, union”)

Prefixed root forms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root गम् (0 c, 26 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root गम् (15 c, 0 e)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “गम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 346, column 3.

William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 34

Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 465-466