अम्नस्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *(H)amnás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *(H)amnás, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)emno- (equal, straight; flat, level, even). Cognate with English even, Icelandic jafn and possibly Old Cornish eun (equal, right).

Pronunciation

Adverb

अम्नस् • (amnás)

  1. unawares, by surprise
  2. just now
  3. at once
  4. sudden

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), “अम्नस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 83, column 1.
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ebna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 113-4