क्वथ्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

  • Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kweth₂- (to boil, foam). Cognate with Latvian kūsāt (to boil), Old English hwaþerian (to foam, surge, roar), Swedish hvå (foam). See also kvass.

    Pronunciation

    Root

    क्वथ् • (kvath)

    1. to boil, prepare by heat
    2. to digest
    3. to be hot (as the heart)

    References

    • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “क्वथ्”, 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
    • Pokorny, Julius (1959), “627”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 627
    • 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 258