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स्तु

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *stew- (to praise). Cognate with Persian ستودن (setudan, to praise, extol), Ancient Greek στεῦται (steûtai, to promise or threaten that one will), Hittite [script needed] (istuwa-, to become public).

Pronunciation

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Root

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स्तु (stu)

  1. to praise, laud, eulogize, extol, celebrate in song or hymns

Derived terms

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Primary Verbal Forms
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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्तु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1259, column 1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 193
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्तु”, 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) “स्तु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 757-8
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 475-6
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 366