ग्रस्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (to swallow, devour).

Pronunciation

Root

ग्रस् • (gras)

  1. to swallow, devour, seize with the mouth
  2. to eat, consume
  3. to eclipse

Derived terms

  • ग्रसित (grasitá, ta-ptc.)
  • ग्रासयति (grāsáyati)

References

  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “ग्रस्”, 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), “404”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 404
  • 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 255