अञ्ज्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”). Cognates include Latin ung(u)ō (“I anoint”), Old Armenian օծ (ōc, “chrism”) and Old High German ancho (“butter”).

Root

अञ्ज् • (añj)

  1. to anoint

Derived terms

  • अक्त (aktá, “bedaubed; ointment”)
  • अङ्क्त्वा (aṅktvā, “having besmeared”)
  • अञ्जन (áñjana, “ointment, pigment, makeup”)
  • अञ्जस् (áñjas, “ointment”)
  • अञ्जि (añjí, “applying an ointment or pigment”)
  • अनक्ति (anákti, “he anoints”)
  • आज्य (ā́jya, “butter or an oil and milk mixture used at a sacrifice”)

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 11
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 2
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