ind. (prob. fr. 5. su + id; cf. kuvid) a particle of interrogation or inquiry or doubt, often translatable by ‘do you think?’ ‘perhaps’, ‘pray’, ‘indeed’, ‘any’ (esp. used after the interrogative ka and its derivatives, e.g. kaḥ svid eṣām brāhmaṇānām anūcāna-tamaḥ, ‘pray who [or ‘who do you think’] is the most learned of these Brahmans?’, [ŚBr.]; but also without another interrogative, e.g. tvaṃ svin no yājñavalkya brakmiṣṭho 'si, ‘do you think Yājñavalkya, you are the greatest Brāhman among us?’, [ib.]; also used after uta, api, āho, and utāho, and disjunctively in the first or second or both parts of a double interrogation, thus: kiṃnu-svid; kiṃsvid-svid; svid-svid; svid-utāho; nu-svid; svid-nu; svid-uta; svid-vā; svid-kimu; svid-kim-nukim; sometimes making a preceding interrogative indefinite, e.g. kvá svid, ‘anywhere’; káḥ svid, ‘whoever’, ‘any one’; similarly with yad, e.g. yad svid dīyate, ‘whatever is given’, [MaitrS.]; sometimes apparently a mere expletive), [RV.] &c.;
cl. 1. Ā. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xviii, 4]; [xxvi, 79]) svedate or svidyati (Ā. svidyate, [Yājñ.]; p. svidyamāna, [Suśr.]; pf. siṣveda Gr.; siṣvide, [MBh.]; p. siṣvidāná, [RV.]; aor. asvidat, [Śiś.]; fut. svettā, svetsyati Gr.; ind.p. -svedam, [Br.]), to sweat, perspire, [AitĀr.]; [ChUp.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.] &c.; (svedate), to be anointed, [Dhātup.]; to be disturbed (?), [ib.] : Caus. svedayati (aor. asiṣvidat), to cause to sweat, treat with sudorifics, [Suśr.]; to foment, soften, [SāmavBr.] : Desid. of Caus. sisvedayiṣati, Gr.: Desid. siṣvitsati, [ib.] : Intens. seṣvidyate, seṣvetti, [ib.]