सती

Sanskrit

noun
Definitions
  • a good and virtuous or faithful wife (esp. applied in later use to the faithful wife popularly called suttee who burns herself with her husband's corpse.
  • a wife, female (of an animal).
  • a female ascetic.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *HsatíH inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HsatíH inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-ih₂.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₁s-ónt-ih₂

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