मीव्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *míHw-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *míHw-, from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (to move). Cognate with English move.

Pronunciation

Root

मीव् • (mīv)

  1. to move, push

Derived terms

  • मीवति (mīvati)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “मीव्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 819/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 122
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 359
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