cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 39]) veti (accord. to some in the conjugational tenses substituted for √ aj; 2. sg. véṣi also as Impv. [RV.]; 3. pl. vyánti, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; Subj. 2. 3. sg. ves, [RV.]; Impv. vīhí or vihí, vītāt, [ib.]; 3. pl. viyantu, [TS.]; p. Ā. vyāná, [RV.]; pf. vivāya, vivye, [ib.]; aor. avaiṣīt Gr.; 3. pl. aveṣan Subj. veṣat, [RV.]; fut. vetā, veṣyati inf. vetum Gr.), to go, approach, (either as a friend i.e. ‘seek or take eagerly, grasp, seize, accept, enjoy’, or as an enemy i.e. ‘fall upon, attack, assail, visit, punish, avenge’), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; to set in motion, arouse, excite, impel, [RV.]; to further, promote, lead or bring or help any one to (two acc.), [ib.]; to get, procure, [ib.] : Pass. -vīyáte &c., [AV.]; [Br.] : Caus. vāyayati or vāpayati (aor. avīvayat), to cause to go or approach &c.; to impregnate, [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 55] : Desid. vivīṣati Gr.: Intens., See ā-√ vī and √ vevī.
[cf. accord. to some, Lat. ve-nari; Germ. weida, Weide, weiden.]
vī́ mfn. going to, eager for, desirous or fond of (gen.), [RV. i, 143, 5] (cf. deva-vī́, pada-vī́)
set in motion (see parṇa-v°)
vī́ m. the act of going, motion, [L.]
√ (vi- 5. i) P. vy-eti (3. pl. viyanti; impf. vy-ait; pf. vīyāya; inf. vy-etum; for vyayati, vyayayati See √ vyay), to go apart or in different directions, diverge, be diffused or scattered or distributed or divided or extended, [RV.] &c. &c. ; to be lost, perish, disappear, [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.; to go through, traverse, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.] : Intens. (or cl. 4. Ā.) vīyate, to pass through, traverse, [RV.]
mfn. (weak form of √ vye) covered (cf. hiraṇya-vī́).
, m. = 1. vi, a bird (see takva-vī́)
f. a female bird, [L.]
in comp. = 3. vi (in vī-kāśa, -cayana, -taṃsa, -nāha, -barha, -mārga, -rudh, -vadha, -vāha, -vidha, -vṛta, -sarpa, -hāra, qq.vv.)