सु

Garhwali

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronoun

सु (su)

1. he, she

Kashmiri

Etymology

From Sanskrit स (sa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [su]

Pronoun

सु • (su) m (feminine स्व, Perso-Arabic سُہ)

1. he: third-person remote II masculine

Determiner

सु • (su)

1. that

Coordinate terms

• यि (yi)
• हु (hu)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• सव् (sav)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• সু (Assamese script)
• ᬲᬸ (Balinese script)
• সু (Bengali script)
• 𑰭𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀲𑀼 (Brahmi script)
• သု (Burmese script)
• સુ (Gujarati script)
• ਸੁ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌸𑍁 (Grantha script)
• ꦱꦸ (Javanese script)
• 𑂮𑂳 (Kaithi script)
• ಸು (Kannada script)
• សុ (Khmer script)
• ສຸ (Lao script)
• സു (Malayalam script)
• ᠰᡠ (Manchu script)
• 𑘭𑘳 (Modi script)
• ᠰᠤ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧍𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐳𑐸 (Newa script)
• ସୁ (Odia script)
• ꢱꢸ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆱𑆶 (Sharada script)
• 𑖭𑖲 (Siddham script)
• සු (Sinhalese script)
• 𑪁𑩒 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚨𑚰 (Takri script)
• ஸு (Tamil script)
• సు (Telugu script)
• สุ (Thai script)
• སུ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒮𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨰𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *saw-, from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press, push forth; juice, liquid, rain”). Cognate with Hittite [script needed] (šu-ú-ez-zi /⁠šuwezi⁠/, “to push (away), shove, cast off”), Younger Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬥𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hunaoⁱti, “to press”), Lithuanian sáuja (handful), Proto-West Germanic *sauw (“juice”), Old Irish suth (“juice, milk”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /su/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪u/

Root

सु • (su)

1. to press out, extract (especially the juice from the soma plant for libations)
2. to distill, prepare (wines, spirits, etc.)

Derived terms

• सुनोति (sunóti)
• सोम (sóma)
• सुत (sutá, “squeezed, pressed”)
• सुनुते (sunute)
• सुन्वन्ति (sunvanti)
• सुन्विरे (sunvire)
• सुष्वति (suṣvati)
• सुन्वत् (sunvat)
• सुन्वान (sunvāna)
• सुषाव (suṣāva)
• सुषुम (suṣuma)
• सुषुवस् (suṣuvas)
• सुष्वाण (suṣvāṇa)
• सुषुवाण (suṣuvāṇa)
• असावीत् (asāvīt)
• असौषीत् (asauṣīt)
• असोष्ट (asoṣṭa)
• असविष्ट (asaviṣṭa)
• सोतु (sotu)
• सुतम् (sutam)
• सुवान (suvāna)
• स्वान (svāna)
• असुषवुः (asuṣavuḥ)
• सोता (sotā)
• सोष्यति (soṣyati)
• सविष्यति (saviṣyati)
• सोतवे (sotave)
• सोतोस् (sotos)
• सोतुम् (sotum)
• सूयते (sūyate)
• सुन्वे (sunve)
• सुषावयिषति (suṣāvayiṣati)
• सुसूषति (susūṣati)
• सुसूषते (susūṣate)
• सोषूयते (soṣūyate)
• सोषवीति (soṣavīti)
• सोषोति (soṣoti)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “सु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1219/2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 187
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “सु”, 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
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “सु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press

• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 0
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 537
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 0912, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0912