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वच्

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (to speak). Cognates include Middle Dutch gewāgen (to speak), Latin vōx (voice), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps, voice) and Persian آواز (âvâz, voice).

    Pronunciation

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    वच् (vac)

    1. to say, speak, utter
    2. to proclaim, declare
    3. to recite
    4. to revile [with accusative]
      • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa
      • (Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya[1], Colombo, 2009:
        3 ආක්‍රොශන‍්මාමවොචන‍්මාම ජයන‍්මාමහාපයත්
        අත්‍ර යෙ උපනහ්‍යන‍්තෙ වෛරං තෙෂාං න ශාම්‍යති
        3 Ākrośanmāmavocanmāma jayanmāmahāpayat
        Atra ye upanahyante vairaṃ teṣāṃ na śāmyati.
        They abused me, they reviled me, they defeated me and plundered me.
        Hatred does not subside for those who nurse grudges thus.
        (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

    Usage notes

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    This root supplies tenses for ब्रू (brū), which only has a present stem.

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    References

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    • Monier Williams (1899) “वच्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 912, column 1.
    • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 151
    • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “vac”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 489-491