Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *ters- (dry). Cognates include Latin torrēns (scorching) whence English torrent, Latin terra and English thirst.

Pronunciation

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Root

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तृष् (tṛṣ)

  1. to be thirsty, thirst for

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “तृष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0454.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “तृष्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 066
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “तृष्”, 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
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