वेत्ति
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wáytti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáytˢti, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”). Cognate with Latin videō, Ancient Greek εἴδω (eídō), Old English witan (whence English wit), Old Church Slavonic вѣдѣти (věděti).
Pronunciation
Verb
वेत्ति • (vétti) (root विद्, class 2, type P)
- (with accusative, in older language also with genitive) to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (RV. etc.)
- (with infinitive) — to know how to
- विद्धि यथा ― viddhi yathā ― know that
- विद्यात् ― vidyāt ― one should know / it should be understood
- य एवं वेद ― ya evaṃ veda ― who knows thus / who has this knowledge(Br.)
- (usually in third-person plural, or with accusative and nominative with इति (iti)) to know, regard, consider as, take for, declare to be, call (Up., Mn., MBh. etc.)
- तं स्थविरं विदुः ― taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ ― they consider or call him aged
- राजर्षिरिति मां विदुः ― rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ ― they consider me a rājarṣi
- (with genitive or accusative) to mind, notice, observe, remember (RV., ŚBr., MBh.)
- (with accusative or genitive) to experience, feel (RV. etc.)
- (with accusative) to wish to know, inquire about (RV., AV., Br.)
- (in causative) to make known, announce, report, tell (ŚBr. etc.)
- → causative वेदयते (vedáyate), rarely वेदयति (vedáyati), aorist अवीविदत् (avīvidat), passive वेद्यते (vedyate)
- to teach, explain (ŚāṅkhŚr.)
- (with two accusatives) to recognize or regard as, take for (MBh., Kāv.)
- to feel, experience (ŚBr., Mn.)
- (in desiderative, with accusative) to wish to know or learn, inquire about (ŚBr. etc.)
- → desiderative of causative विवेदयिषु (vivedayiṣu), desiderative विविदिषति (vividiṣati) or विवित्सति (vivitsati), intensive वेविद्यते (vevidyate), वेवेत्ति (vevetti)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “वेत्ति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0963.
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