अन्
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind, breeze”), Latin animus (“life force”), Old Armenian հողմ (hołm, “wind”), Tocharian B āñme, Old English anda (“zeal, anger”), Old Irish anál (“breath”).
Root
अन् • (an)
- to breathe
Derived terms
- अन (aná, “breath, respiration”)
- अनति (ánati, “he breathes”)
- अनन (ánana, “breathing, living”)
- अनिति (ániti, “he breathes”)
- अनिल (ánila, “air, wind”)
- आन (āná, “exhaling through the nose; mouth; face”)
- आनन (ānana, “mouth; face”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “अन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 24.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 3