इध्
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- इन्ध् (indh)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Haydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn, kindle”). Cognate with Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō, “I kindle, burn”), Latin aestus (“heat, fire”), Old Irish áed (“fire”), Old English ād (“pyre”), āl (“fire”).
Root
इध् • (idh)
- to kindle
Derived terms
- अग्नीध् (agnī́dh, “the priest who kindles the fire”)
- इद्ध (iddhá, “kindled, alight”)
- इध्म (idhmá, “fuel”)
- इन्द्धे (inddhé, “he kindles”)
- इन्ध (índha, “lighting, kindling”)
- इन्धन (indhana, “kindling, lighting”)
- इन्धित (indhita, “inflamed, kindled”)
- एध (édha, “fuel”)
- एधस् (édhas, “fuel”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “इध्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 167.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 8