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
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arcsin English
- outsin English
- sin English
- sin-ridden English
- sinful English
- sinhound English
- sinless English
- sinlike English
- sinner English
- sinnest English
- sinneth English
- sinny English
- unsin English
- *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁s-ónt-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *sundijō Proto-Germanic
- *sunjō Proto-Germanic
- firensynn Old English
- synbot Old English
- synful Old English
- synleas Old English
- synn Old English
- synnig Old English
- sinne Middle English
- *HsatíH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *HsatíH Proto-Indo-Aryan