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3. vi ind. ( prob. for an original dvi, meaning ‘in two parts’; and opp. to sam, q.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. vibhid, śiṣ, dhā, rudh, car, with their nominal derivatives)

sometimes it gives a meaning opposite to the idea contained in the simple root ( e.g. √ krī, ‘to buy’; vikrī, ‘to sell’), or it intensifies that idea ( e.g. √ hiṃs, ‘to injure’; vihiṃs, ‘to injure severely’). The above 3. vi may also be used in forming compounds not immediately referable to verbs, in which cases it may express ‘difference’ ( cf. 1. vilakṣaṇa), ‘change’ or ‘variety’ ( cf. vicitra), ‘intensity’ ( cf. vikarāla), ‘manifoldness’ ( cf. vividha), ‘contrariety’ ( cf. viloma), ‘deviation from right’ ( cf. viśīla), ‘negation’ or ‘privation’ ( cf. vikaccha, being often used like 3. a, nir, and nis [ qq.vv. ], and like the Lat. dis , se , and the English a , dis , in , un &c.)

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 āvī and √ vevī.