ष्ठीवति

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ṣṭʰíHwati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stčíHwati, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(t)yewH- (“to spit, spew”) (with metathesis of *-iwH- to *-iHw-, thus reflecting a pre-form *sp(t)iHw-), compare *(s)ptyēw-. Cognate with Old Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ), Persian تف (tuf, “spittle”), Ossetian ту (tu, “spittle”), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “I spit out”), Latin spuo (whence Italian sputare), Old Church Slavonic пльвати (plĭvati), Russian плевать (plevatʹ), Old English spīwan (whence English spew).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʂʈʰíː.ʋɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʂʈʰiː.ʋɐ.t̪i/

Verb

ष्ठीवति • (ṣṭhī́vati) (class-1/4, root ष्ठीव् or ष्ठिव्) (Vedic stcīváti)

1. to spit, spit out, expectorate, spit upon (locative) (Suśr., VarBṛS., Kathās.)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “ष्ठीवति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1111.
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 583-584

Further reading

• Partial conjugation: class 1, class 4 (without causative, desiderative and intensive)