विद्

See also: वद्, वेदि, वादा, वेदी, वेद, वाद, and -वादी

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wayd-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wayd-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Latin videō (“to see”), Ancient Greek οἶδα (oîda, “to know”). Compare also English wit, Bulgarian ви́дя (vídja, “I see”), Russian ви́деть (vídetʹ, “to see”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋid/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋid̪/

Root

विद् • (vid)

1. know, find

Derived terms

• अविद्या (ávidyā, “unlearnedness, ignorance, lack of knowledge”)
• विदति (vidati, 6 P)
• विदते (vidate, 6 Ā)
• विद्या (vidyā́, “knowledge, science, scholarship”)
• विन्दति (vindáti, “to find, meet, know”, 6 P)
• विन्दते (vindate, 6 Ā)
• विवित्सति (vivitsati, desiderative)
• विविदिषति (vividiṣati, desiderative)
• वेत्ति (vétti, “to know”, 2 P)
• वेद (veda, “finding, obtaining, acquisition”)
• वेद (véda, “knowledge”)
• वेदति (vedati, 1 P)
• वेदते (vedate, 1 Ā)
• वेदयते (vedayate, causative)
• वेदि (védi, “knowledge, science”)
• वेविद्यते (vevidyate, intensive)
• वेवेत्ति (vevetti, intensive)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “विद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 963.