Whitney: Sanskrit roots and their verb forms

Whitney’s root index contains 936 distinct root spellings, including the additions covered by the index. Roots with the same spelling but different meanings have their own references.

The search covers the root index with the available brief English glosses. Read the detailed verb forms and primary derivatives on the linked original pages. For entries that span several pages, the links also lead to the continuation pages.

Edition: William Dwight Whitney: The Roots, Verb-Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1885.

Index: AYI’s existing root index was checked and supplemented using Michaël Meyer’s Index of Whitney’s Roots (2015) and the printed pages. Spellings were normalized for the shared search; the brief English glosses retain their original language.

Original pages: Scan from the University of California Libraries, available through the Internet Archive. The complete book includes the introduction and explanations of abbreviations.

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