As a Hindi name
वी · vī · s.f.
(m. वि vi), A bird — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1206
वी · vī · s.f.
Going; motion — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1206
Cited formation "वी" is व + -ई: व means "and", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "वी" is व + -ई: व means "and", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "वी" is व + -ई: व means "and", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
going to, eager for, desirous or fond of (gen.), (cf. deva-vī, pada-vī)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vī" is the nominative dual of "vi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. vī cl. 2. P. (Dhātup. xxiv, 39) veti (accord. to some in the conjug. tenses substituted for √ aj; 2. sg. veṣi also as Impv. RV.; 3. pl. vyanti, RV.; AV.; Br.; Subj. 2. 3. sg. ves, RV.; Impv. vīhi or vihi, vītāt, ib.; 3. pl. viyantu, TS.; p. Ā. vyāna, 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. -vīyate &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.
vī [cf. accord. to some, Lat. ve-nari; Germ. weida, Weide, weiden.]
2. vī mfn. going to, eager for, desirous or fond of (gen.), RV. i, 143, 5 (cf. deva-vī, pada-vī)
set in motion (see parṇa-v˚)
vī m. the act of going, motion, L.
1. vi m. (nom. vis or ves acc. vim gen. abl. ves; pl. nom. acc. vayas [acc. vīn, Bhaṭṭ.]; vibhis, vibhyas, vīnām) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), RV.; VS.; PañcavBr., (also occurring in later language).
vi [cf. 1. vayas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]
Alternative readings
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