vazraka-

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `inrease, strengthen' (Il.); cf. Gonda, Ancient Indian ojas 77f.

Other forms: ἀέξω (Il.), αὐξάνω (Ion.-Att.), aor. αὐξῆσαι. [Unhappily, αὔξω and αὐξάνω are not treated separately in LSJ.]

Derivatives: αὔξησις (ion. att.). - αὐξίς, - ίδος f. `young of the tunny' (Phryn. Com.; Strömberg Fischnamen 127).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [84] h₂eug-, * h₂ueg-

Etymology: PIE root * h₂eug-, h₂ueg- with -s- (prob. in origin only pres.). Without -s- we have Lat. augeo, Goth. aukan, Lith. áugti `wachsen' (acute through the -g-, Winter's Law). s-stem in Lat. augus-tus, Skt. ójas- n. `strength'. Toch. B auks-, A oks- `grow', perhaps in Lat. auxilia n. pl. `reinforcements', Lith. áukštas `high'. * h₂weg- in Germ., e. g. Goth. wahsjan, Skt. vakṣáyati `make grow', Av. vaxš- `id'. Perhaps Lat. vegeo is the s-less form (with long vowel Skt. vā́ja- m. `strength', Goth. wokrs m. `gain, interest'), for which Iranian, e.g. OP vazraka- `big', shows palatal ǵ (depalat. after u ?). Zero grade * ug-s- in Skt. pres. ptc. úkṣant-, ukṣámāṇa- and Av. pres. uxšyeiti `grows'; without -s Skt. and Av. ugrá- `big, stong'. - On the ablaut cf. ἀλκ-ή: ἀλέξ-ω.

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