स्विद् [ svid ] [ svid ]1 ind. ( prob. fr. 5. [ su ] [ id ] ; cf. [ kuvid ] ) a particle of interrogation or inquiry or doubt , often translatable by " do you think? " " perhaps " , " pray " , " indeed " , " any " (esp. used after the interrogative [ ka ] and its derivatives e.g. [ kaḥ svid eṣām brāhmaṇānām anūcāna-tamaḥ ] , " pray who ( or " who do you think " ) is the most learned of these Brahmans? " Lit. ŚBr. ; but also without another interrogative e.g. [ tvaṃ svin no yājñavalkya brakmiṣṭho 'si ] , " do you think Yājñavalkya , you are the greatest Brāhman among us? " Lit. ib. ; also used after [ uta ] , [ api ] , [ āho ] , and [ utāho ] , and disjunctively in the first or second or both parts of a double interrogation , thus: [ kiṃnu-svid ] ; [ kiṃsvid-svid ] ; [ svid-svid ] ; [ svid-utāho ] ; [ nu-svid ] ; [ svid-nu ] ; [ svid-uta ] ; [ svid-vā ] ; [ svid-kimu ] ; [ svid-kim-nukim ] ; sometimes making a preceding interrogative indefinite e.g. [ kvá svid ] , " anywhere " ; [ káḥ svid ] , " whoever " , " any one " ; similarly with [ yad ] e.g. [ yad svid dīyate ] , " whatever is given " Lit. MaitrS. ; sometimes apparently a mere expletive) Lit. RV. Lit.