su
5. su/ ind. ( opp. to dus and corresponding in sense to Gk. εὖ ; perhaps connected with 1. va/su , and, accord. to some, with pron. base sa , as ku with ka ; in Veda also sU/ and liable to become zu or zU and to lengthen a preceding vowel, while a following na may become Ra ; it may be used as an adj. or adv. ), good, excellent, right, virtuous, beautiful, easy, well, rightly, much, greatly, very, any, easily, willingly, quickly (in older language often with other particles; esp. with u , = ‘forthwith, immediately’; with mo i.e. mA u , = ‘never, by no means’ ; su/ kam often emphatically with an Impv. , e.g. ti/zWA su/ kam maGavan mA/ parA gAH , ‘do tarry O Maghavan , go not past’, RV. iii, 53, 2 ; su always qualifies the meaning of a verb and is never used independently at the beginning of a verse; in later language it is rarely a separate word, but is mostly prefixed to substantives, adjectives, adverbs and participles, exceptionally also to an ind.p. , e.g. su-badDvA , ‘having well bound’, Mṛcch. x, 50 ; or even to a finite verb, e.g. su-nirvavO , Śiś. vi, 58 ), RV. &c.;