स्रवति

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sráwati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sráwati, from Proto-Indo-European *sréw-e-ti (“flow, stream”), from *srew-.[1] Cognate with Parthian 𐫡𐫀𐫇𐫏𐫗𐫅‎ (rʾwynd, “to pour off”, 3pl.pres.),[2] Old Armenian առոգեմ (aṙogem), Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō), Lithuanian sravė́ti.

Pronunciation

Verb

स्रवति • (srávati) (root स्रु, class 1, type P)[3]

  1. to flow, stream
  2. to leak, drip
  3. to perish, fail
  4. to issue, arise [+accusative = to]
  5. (finance) to accrue

References
  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*sreu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 588
  2. Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*hrau”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
  3. Monier Williams (1899), “स्रवति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1274.
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