स्तृणाति
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *str̥náHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *str̥náHti, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to scatter, spread, strew”). Cognate with Latin sternō (“I bestrew, sprinkle”), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (stərənāiti), Ancient Greek στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi), Old Church Slavonic (о-)строуити ((o-)struiti), Old English strewian (whence English strew).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /str̩.ɳɑ́ː.ti/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /s̪t̪r̩ˈɳɑː.t̪i/
Verb
स्तृणाति • (stṛnā́ti) (root स्तॄ)
- to scatter, strew, bestrew
- to spread, spread out, spread over
References
- Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “स्तृ”, 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
- “स्तृणाति” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 639.
- Monier Williams (1899), “स्तृणाति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1260.
- Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 1866, page 1071-b.