释义 |
‖ seṭ, a. Philol.|sɛt| [Skr., f. sa- + iṭ ‘i’.] In Sanskrit, designating a root after which the vowel i appears before certain suffixes and endings (such roots being now widely explained as reflecting a type earlier having a laryngeal suffix). Also transf. of reconstructed Indo-European roots and formations based on them in various languages.
1897S. C. Vasu Ashtádhyáyi of Pániṇi II. vii. ii. 1366 A root which is optionally Seṭ before other affixes, is invariably aniṭ before Nishṭhâ. 1939E. Prokosch Compar. Germanic Gram. 129 Sanskrit grammar..distinguishes between sēṭ-bases and aniṭ-bases, i.e., bases with or without i ‹ ə (sa- ‘with’, an- ‘without’). 1952W. P. Lehmann Proto-Indo-European Phonol. iii. 28 The laryngeal theory demands a change of analysis of some of the most important IE form classes, such as the seṭ-roots. 1962C. Watkins Indo-European Origins of Celtic Verb i. 186 In Indo-European, seṭ roots formed only a limited number of kinds of presents... The Celtic verbs continue Indo-European athematic seṭ presents. 1970G. Nagy Gr. Dial. i. 45 For the extension of complex -iṣ- from seṭ-roots as replacement of simplex -s- and for the morphophonemic conditioning, cf. Kurylowicz, Apophonie, 252–257. |