तन्
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”). Compare Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō), Latin tendō, German dehnen.
Derived terms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root तन् (0 c, 4 e)
Primary Verbal Forms
Secondary Forms
- तायते (tāyáte, Passive)
- तन्यते (tanyáte, Passive)
- अतानि (átāni, Passive)
- तानयति (tānáyati, Causative)
- अतीतनत् (átītanat, Causative)
- तितांसति (titāṃsati, Desiderative)
- तितानिषति (titāniṣati, Desiderative)
- तन्तन्यते (tantanyate, Intensive)
Non-Finite Forms
- तन्तुम् (tántum, Infinitive)
- तत्वा (tatvā́, Gerund)
- तत (tatá, Past Participle)
Derived Nominal Forms
- तति (tati, “mass, crowd”)
- तन (tána, “offspring,posterity”)
- तनय (tanaya)
- तनस् (tanas, “offspring”)
- तन्त्र (tántra, “loom”)
- तनिका (tanikā, “cord”)
- तनितृ (tanitṛ, “accomplisher”)
- तनु (tanú, “thin”)
- तनीयस् (tánīyas, “thinner”)
- तनिष्ठ (tániṣṭha, “thinnest”)
- तनू (tanū́, “body”)
- तन्ति (tantí, “cord, line”)
- तन्तु (tántu, “thread”)
Descendants
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root तन् (2 c, 0 e)
Noun
तन् • (tán) stem, m
- continuation, uninterrupted succession Lit. RV.
- propagation, offspring, posterity
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “तन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 435.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 60
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