सीदति

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *síẓḍati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síždati, from Proto-Indo-European *sí-sd-e-ti, from *sed- (“to sit”).^[1] Cognates include Latin sedeō, Old Church Slavonic сѣдѣти (sěděti), Old English sittan (English sit).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /s̪íː.d̪ɐ.t̪i/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪iː.d̪ɐ.t̪i/

Verb

सीदति • (sī́dati) (root सद्, class 1 P or 6 P)^[2]

to sit, sit down
to lie in wait, be at watch

References

↑ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*sed-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 513
↑ 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 1138

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