सु

See also: सु-

Garhwali

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronoun

सु (su)

1. he, she

Kashmiri

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [su]

Pronoun

सु • (su) m (feminine स्व, Perso-Arabic سُہ)

1. he: third-person remote II masculine

Determiner

सु • (su)

1. that

Coordinate terms

• यि (yi)
• हु (hu)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• सव् (sav)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• সু (Assamese script)
• ᬲᬸ (Balinese script)
• সু (Bengali script)
• 𑰭𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀲𑀼 (Brahmi script)
• သု (Burmese script)
• સુ (Gujarati script)
• ਸੁ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌸𑍁 (Grantha script)
• ꦱꦸ (Javanese script)
• 𑂮𑂳 (Kaithi script)
• ಸು (Kannada script)
• សុ (Khmer script)
• ສຸ (Lao script)
• സു (Malayalam script)
• ᠰᡠ (Manchu script)
• 𑘭𑘳 (Modi script)
• ᠰᠤ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧍𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐳𑐸 (Newa script)
• ସୁ (Odia script)
• ꢱꢸ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆱𑆶 (Sharada script)
• 𑖭𑖲 (Siddham script)
• සු (Sinhalese script)
• 𑪁𑩒 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚨𑚰 (Takri script)
• ஸு (Tamil script)
• సు (Telugu script)
• สุ (Thai script)
• སུ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒮𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨰𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *saw-, from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press, push forth; juice, liquid, rain”). Cognate with Hittite 𒋗𒌑𒄑𒍣 (šu-ú-ez-zi /⁠šuwezi⁠/, “to push (away), shove, cast off”), Younger Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬥𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hunaoⁱti, “to press”), Lithuanian sáuja (handful), Proto-West Germanic *sauw (“juice”), Old Irish suth (“juice, milk”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /su/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪u/

Root

सु • (su)

1. to press out, extract (especially the juice from the soma plant for libations)
2. to distill, prepare (wines, spirits, etc.)

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

• सु॒नोति॑ (sunóti, present)
• सो॒ष्यति॑ (soṣyáti, future)
• स॒वि॒ष्यति॑ (saviṣyáti, future)
• सो॒ता (sotā́, periphrastic future)
• असौ॑षीत् (ásauṣīt, aorist)
• असा॑वीत् (ásāvīt, aorist)
• असो॑त् (ásot, aorist)
• सु॒षाव॑ (suṣā́va, perfect)

Secondary forms

• सू॒यते॑ (sūyáte, passive)
• असा॑वि (ásāvi, passive aorist)
• सा॒वय॑ति (sāváyati, causative)
• असु॑षोत् (ásuṣot, causative aorist)
• असू॑षवत् (ásūṣavat, causative aorist)
• सुसूषति (susūṣati, desiderative)
• सुषावयिषति (suṣāvayiṣati, desiderative of causative)
• सोषूयते (soṣūyate, intensive)
• सोषोति (soṣoti, intensive)

Non-finite forms

• सु॒त (sutá, past participle)
• सोतुम् (sotum, infinitive)
• सोत॑वे (sótave, infinitive)
• सोतो॑स् (sótos, infinitive)
• सुत्वा (sutvā, gerund)
• सुत्य॑ (sútya, gerund)
• सोत्व॑ (sótva, gerundive)

Derived nominal forms

• स॒व (savá)
• सव॑न (sávana)
• सा॒व (sāvá)
• सुत् (sut)
• सुति (suti)
• सुत्य (sutya)
• सुत्या (sutyā)
• सुत्व॑न् (sútvan)
• सुष्वि॑ (súṣvi)
• सोतु॑ (sótu)
• सो॒तृ (sotṛ́)
• सोम॑ (sóma)
• सो॒मन् (somán)

Prefixed root forms

• अभिषु (abhiṣu)
• आसु (āsu)
• प्रसु (prasu)
• संसु (saṃsu)

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root सु (0 c, 2 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root सु (5 c, 0 e)

References

• Monier Williams (1899), “सु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1219, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 187

• Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “सु”, 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), “सु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press

• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “?*seu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 537
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 912