वच्

See also: वाच् and वाचा

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“speak”). Cognates include Middle Dutch gewāgen (“to speak”), Latin vōx (“voice”), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps, “voice”) and Persian ‎ (âvâz, “voice”).

Root

वच् • (vac)

to speak, utter, say

Derived terms

Verb forms of वच् (vac)

उच्यते (ucyate, “to be spoken”, passive)
प्रवाचे (pravā́ce, infinitive)
वक्तवे (vaktave, infinitive)
वक्ति (vákti, “to speak”, 2P)
वक्तोस् (váktos, infinitive)
वाचयति (vācayati, “to cause to speak”, causative)
वाचयते (vācayate, causative)
विवक्षति (vivakṣati, “to wish to say”, desiderative)
विवक्षते (vivakṣate, desiderative)
विवक्ष्यते (vivakṣyate, “to be meant”, passive of desiderative)
वोच् (√voc, aorist root)

उक्त (uktá, “spoken”)
वग्नु (vagnú, “call, cry, noise, roar”)
वग्नु (vagnú, “garrulous, loquacious”)
वचन (vácana, “speaking”)
वाक् (vā́k, “speech (nom.)”)
वाच् (vā́c, “speech”)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “वच्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 912.

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