Talk:श्वाविध्

The synchronic derivation does not work because श्वा is the nominative. "Piercing a dog" has "dog" in the accusative. The long ā in śvāvidh requires the laryngeal in the older PIA term. The weak case of श्वन् would otherwise be श्व. It is not exclusively Vedic because the term appears in Mahabharata. We only label as Vedic those terms or senses which are exclusively Vedic. As in most cases, the etymology of this entry needed no edits and I'm restoring it to the previous state. -- 𝓑𝓱𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓪(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴) 02:17, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Added the constituent components. -- 𝓑𝓱𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓪(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴) 02:22, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, got it. As for Rigvedic Sanskrit, I believe it's the same - CAT:Rigvedic Sanskrit would contain terms only attested in Rigveda, right? 🔥 शब्दशोधक 🔥 03:15, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * That's correct because otherwise all words found in thw RV (like, etc) which were in widespread use even in Classical Sanskrit and also in many modern languages will have to be labelled "Rigvedic" which can be misleading. Either the word should appear only in Vedic or a particular meaning should (for instance at  the meaning "a single tree" has the Vedic tag because in Classical Sanskrit it refers to a forest but in Vedic it can also mean a single tree. -- 𝓑𝓱𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓪(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴)  04:11, 8 April 2021 (UTC)