सीव्यति

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *síHwati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síHwati, from Proto-Indo-European *síh₁-we-ti, from *syuh₁- (“to sew”). Cognate with Lithuanian siū́ti, Latin suō, Ancient Greek ὑμήν (humḗn), Old English siwian (whence English sew).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /síːʋ.jɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪iːʋ.jɐ.t̪i/

Verb

सीव्यति • (sī́vyati) third-singular present indicative (root सिव्, class 4, type P)

1. to sew, darn, stitch, stitch together.
2. to join, unite.

Descendants

• Assamese: সীয়া (xia)
• Gujarati: સીવવું (sīvvũ)
• Hindi: सीना (sīnā)
• Marathi: शिवणे (śivṇe)
• Konkani: शिव्चे (śivce)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “सीव्यति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1218.