(defect. verb, only perf. 3. sg. ā́ha and 3. pl. āhúḥ, [RV.]; [AV.] &c., 2. sg. āttha, [ŚBr. xiv] ([BṛĀrUp.]), [N.]; [Ragh. iii, 48] 3. du. āhatuḥ, [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 35]) to say, speak, [RV.] &c.; (with lexicographers) to express, signify; to call (by name, nāmnā), [MBh. iii, 16065]; to call, hold, consider, regard as (with two acc., for one of which may be substituted a phrase with iti), [RV.] &c.; to state or declare with reference to (acc.), [BṛĀrUp.]; [Śak.]; [Megh.]; to acknowledge, accept, state, [AitBr.]; [Mn.] &c.; to adjudge anything (acc.) to any one (gen.), [Mn. ix, 44.]
[cf. Hib. ag-all, ‘speech’; eigh-im, ‘I call’; Goth. af-aika, ‘I deny’; Lat. nego for n'-ego, ‘to say no’; ad-ag-ium, ajo, &c.]
cl. 5. P. ahnoti, to pervade or occupy, [L.]