अञ्ज्

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”). Cognates include Latin ung(u)ō (“I anoint”), Old Armenian օծ (ōc, “chrism”) and Old High German ancho (“butter”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐɲd͡ʑ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɐɲd͡ʑ/

अञ्ज् • (añj)

1. to anoint, smear
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 08.029.01:

     babhrúr éko víṣuṇaḥ sūnáro yúvā
     añjí aṅkte hiraṇyáyam

     Brown, this one is changeable, a spirited youth;
     he smears golden unguent on himself (A riddle, answer: Soma)

• अक्त (aktá, “bedaubed; ointment”)
• अङ्क्त्वा (aṅktvā, “having besmeared”)
• अञ्जन (áñjana, “ointment, pigment, makeup”)
• अञ्जस् (áñjas, “ointment”)
• अञ्जि (añjí, “applying an ointment or pigment”)
• अञ्जि (añjí, “unctuous, smooth, sleek (of a penis)”)
• अनक्ति (anákti, “he anoints”)
• आज्य (ā́jya, “butter or an oil and milk mixture used at a sacrifice”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “अञ्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 11.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 2
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 54