वद्

Likely from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wedH- (“to utter, to call”), and cognate with Proto-Hellenic *awéidō (“to sing”) (per Calvert Watkins), whence Ancient Greek ἀείδω (aeídō, “to chant, praise”), as well as with αὐδή (audḗ, “voice; speech”), Proto-Slavic *vaditi (whence Polish wadzić (“to encumber”)), Lithuanian vadìnti, and Hittite [script needed] (watarnahh-, “to inform, report”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐd/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ʋɐd̪/

वद् • (vad)

1. to speak

वद् • (vad) 10 U

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• Monier Williams (1899) “वद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 916/1.
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• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 496
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 133-134