सृप्

Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

• সৃপ্ (Assamese script)
• ᬲᬺᬧ᭄ (Balinese script)
• সৃপ্ (Bengali script)
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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *serp-

Sanskrit सृप् (sṛp)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sarp-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sarp-, from Proto-Indo-European *serp- (“to creep, crawl”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἕρπω (hérpō, “creep, crawl”) whence ἕρπης (hérpēs), Proto-Albanian *serpena, Latin serpō whence serpēns (“serpent”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sr̩p/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪r̩p/

Root

सृप् • (sṛp)

1. to creep, crawl, glide, slink
2. to move gently or cautiously
3. to slip into

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root सृप् (0 c, 1 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root सृप् (10 c, 0 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

• सर्प॑ति (sárpati, Present)
• सर्पते (sarpate, Present)
• सर्प्स्यति (sarpsyati, Future)
• स्रप्स्यति (srapsyati, Future)
• सर्प्ता (sarptā, Periphrastic Future)
• स्रप्ता (sraptā, Periphrastic Future)
• असृप्त (asṛpta, Aorist)
• असृप्त (asṛpta, Aorist)
• असार्प्सीत् (asārpsīt, Aorist)
• अस्राप्सीत् (asrāpsīt, Aorist)
• ससर्प (sasarpa, Perfect)

Secondary Forms

• सर्पयति (sarpayati, Causative)
• सिसृ॑प्सति (sísṛpsati, Desiderative)
• सरीसृप्यते (sarīsṛpyate, Intensive)
• सरीसर्प्ति (sarīsarpti, Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

• सर्पितुम् (sarpitum, Infinitive)
• सर्प्तुम् (sarptum, Infinitive)
• स्रप्तुम् (sraptum, Infinitive)
• सृप्त्वा (sṛptvā, Gerund)
• सृप्य॑ (sṛ́pya, Gerund)

Derived Nominal Forms

• स॒र्प (sarpá)
• सृ॒प्र (sṛprá)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “सृप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1245.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 190
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “सृप्”, 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) “सृप्”, 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 400
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 536
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0912”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0912