एधते

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háydʰatay, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háydʰatay, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éydʰ-e-ti (“to ignite, set on fire”), from *h₂eydʰ- (“to ignite, burn”). Cognate with Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́j.d̪ʱɐ.t̪ɐj/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.d̪ʱɐ.t̪eː/

एधते • (édhate) (root एध्, class 1 Ā) (Vedic áidhatai)

1. to prosper, increase, grow
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda

   Synonyms: वर्धते (várdhate), ऋध्नोति (ṛdhnóti)

2. to spread, extend
3. to swell

• एध (édha, “fuel, firewood”)
• एधस् (édhas, “fuel, happiness”)

• Monier Williams (1899), “एधते”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 231.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 16