(not separable in all forms fr. √ 2. ; cf. su-ṣū́, asu-sū, and √ 4. su) cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 115]) suváti (in [Br.] also °te, and accord. to [Dhātup. xxii, 43] and [xxiv, 32] also savati and -sauti; pf. suṣuvé, [AV.]; p. suṣuvāṇá, q.v.; aor. asāvīt, sāviṣat, [RV.] : Pass. sūyáte, [Br.] &c.), to set in motion, urge, impel, vivify, create, produce, [RV.] &c. &c.; to hurl upon, [Bhaṭṭ.]; to grant, bestow (esp. said of Savitṛ), [RV.]; to appoint or consecrate to (Ā. ‘to let one's self be consecrated’), [AV.]; [TS.]; to allow, authorize, [ŚBr.] : Intens. soṣavīti, to urge or impel violently (said of Savitṛ), [RV.]
(cf. 1. and √ 5. su) cl. 2. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 21]) sūte (1. sg. pr. suve, 3. sg. impf. asūta; in later language also sūyate [[xxvi, 31]] and in comp. with pra also -savati and -sauti [cf. [xxiv, 31]]; pf. sasūva, [RV.]; suṣuvé, [AV.] &c.; susāva, [MBh.] &c.; aor. asuṣot, [MaitrS.]; °ṣavuḥ, [TBr.]; asoṣṭa, [ChUp.]; asauṣīt and asaviṣṭa Gr.; fut. sotā, savitā, [ib.]; soṣyáti, °te, [Br.] &c.; saviṣyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; p. f. sū́ṣyantī, [RV.]; soṣyántī [s.v.] [ŚBr.] ; inf. sū́tave, [RV.]; sūtavaí, [AV.]; sávitave, [ib.]; sotum or savitum Gr.; ind.p. sūtvā́, [Br.]; -sūya, [MBh.] &c.; -sútya, [ŚBr.]), to beget, procreate, bring forth, bear, produce, yield, [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. sūyate (aor. asāvi), to be begotten or brought forth, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. sāvayati Gr.: Desid. susūṣati, [ib.]
mfn. begetting, procreating, bringing forth, producing (mostly ifc.; see a-, ambhaḥ-, karṇa-sū &c.)
m. one who begets, a father, [RV.]; [VS.]
a mother, [RV. i, 32, 9]
child-bearing, parturition, [W.]
[cf. Gk. ὗς, σῦς; Lat. sus; Angl.Sax. sû; Eng. sow; Germ. Sau.]
ind., Ved. and in some comp. = su, well, good &c. (cf. sū-nara, sū-nṛta &c.)