Etymograph

English

Savitr

Savitr comes from Sanskrit सवितृ ‘stimulator, rouser, vivifier’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sewH- ‘to push (forth)’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sewH-‘to push (forth)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*sawH-reconstructed
  3. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEसूsū‘to impel, to vivify’
  4. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEसवितृ‘stimulator, rouser, vivifier’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2003Savitr

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sewH-‘to push (forth)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*sawH-reconstructed
  3. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEसूsū‘to impel, to vivify’
  4. Sanskrit, derivedc. 1500–500 BCEसवितृ‘stimulator, rouser, vivifier’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2003Savitr

Earliest quotation: 2003, Malati J. Shendge, The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rigveda: “However, Savitṛ represents, as has been rightly pointed out…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sewH- ‘to push (forth)’

son, sock, sounder, 3 more

Today it means

name A solar deity (Deva) and one of the Adityas. He is sometimes identified with, and at other times distinguished from, the chief Sun deity Surya.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sewH- / Savitr

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