वि m. 1.m. (
nom. वि॑स् or
वे॑स्acc. वि॑म्gen. abl. वे॑स्;
pl. nom. acc. व॑यस् [acc.
वीन्,
[Bhaṭṭ.] ];
वि॑भिस्,
वि॑भ्यस्,
वीना॑म्) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the
मरुत्s),
[RV.] ;
[VS.] ;
[PañcavBr,] (also occurring in later language).
वि [
cf. 1.व॑यस्;
Gk. οἰωνός for
ὀϝιωνος;
Lat. a-vis;
accord. to some
Germ. Ei;
Angl.Sax. aég;
Eng. egg.]
वि n. 2.n. an artificial word said to be =
अन्न,
[ŚBr.] वि n. 3.ind. (
prob. for an original
द्वि, meaning ‘in two parts’; and
opp. to
सम्q.v. ) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without,
[RV.] &c. &c. In,
[RV.] it appears also as a
prep. with
acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb,
e.g. i, 181, 5; x, 86, 20 &c.) It is
esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (
cf. वि-√ भिद्,
-शिष्,
-धा,
-रुध्,
-चर्, with their nominal derivatives)
क्री sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (
e.g. √ , ‘to buy’;
वि-√ क्री, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (
e.g. √
हिंस्, ‘to injure’;
वि-√ हिंस्, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3.
वि॑ may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (
cf. 1.वि-लक्षण), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (
cf. वि-चित्र), ‘intensity’ (
cf. वि-कराल), ‘manifoldness’ (
cf. वि-विध), ‘contrariety’ (
cf. वि-लोम), ‘deviation from right’ (
cf. वि-शील), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (
cf. वि-कच्छ, being often used like 3.
अ,
निर्, and
निस् [qq. vv.], and like the
Lat. dis,
se, and the English
a,
dis,
in,
un &c.)
वि-जामि in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (
cf. ,
वि-जामातृ)
वि-कोक it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (
e.g. ,
वि-पृथु,
वि-विंश). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article
but words having several subordinate compounds will be found
s.v.