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जीव्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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    From the zero-grade (*ǰiHw-) of Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰayHw-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (whence also गय (gáya)).

    Root

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    जीव् (jīv)[1][2]

    1. live
    2. revive, reanimate

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    Primary Verbal Forms
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    References

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    1. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “जीव्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 422, column 2.
    2. ^ William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 54