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वि m. 1.m. (nom. वि॑स् or वे॑स्acc. वि॑म्gen. abl. वे॑स्; pl. nom. acc. व॑यस् [acc. वीन्, [Bhaṭṭ.] ]; वि॑भिस्, वि॑भ्यस्, वीना॑म्) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the मरुत्s), [RV.] ; [VS.] ; [PañcavBr,] (also occurring in later language).
वि [cf. 1.व॑यस्; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. aég; Eng. egg.]
वि n. 2.n. an artificial word said to be = अन्न, [ŚBr.]
वि n. 3.ind. (prob. for an original द्वि, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to सम्q.v. ) apart, asunder, in different directions, to and fro, about, away, away from, off, without, [RV.] &c. &c. In, [RV.] it appears also as a prep. with acc. denoting ‘through’ or ‘between’ (with ellipse of the verb, e.g. i, 181, 5; x, 86, 20 &c.) It is esp. used as a prefix to verbs or nouns and other parts of speech derived from verbs, to express ‘division’, ‘distinction’, ‘distribution’, ‘arrangement’, ‘order’, ‘opposition’, or ‘deliberation’ (cf. वि-√ भिद्, -शिष्, -धा, -रुध्, -चर्, with their nominal derivatives)
क्री sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root (e.g. √ , ‘to buy’; वि-√ क्री, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea (e.g. √ हिंस्, ‘to injure’; वि-√ हिंस्, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. वि॑ may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ (cf. 1.वि-लक्षण), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ (cf. वि-चित्र), ‘intensity’ (cf. वि-कराल), ‘manifoldness’ (cf. वि-विध), ‘contrariety’ (cf. वि-लोम), ‘deviation from right’ (cf. वि-शील), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ (cf. वि-कच्छ, being often used like 3. अ, निर्, and निस् [qq. vv.], and like the Lat. dis, se, and the English a, dis, in, un &c.)
वि-जामि in some cases it does not seem to modify the meaning of the simple word at all (cf. , वि-जामातृ)
वि-कोक it is also used to form proper names out of other proper names (e.g. , वि-पृथु, वि-विंश). To save space such words are here mostly collected under one article
but words having several subordinate compounds will be found s.v.
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