svid:- svid

svid ¦ ind. (prob. fr. 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. kaH svid ezAm brAhmaRAnAm anUcAna-tamaH, ‘pray who [or ‘who do you think’] is the most learned of these Brahmans?’, ŚBr.;
but also without another interrogative, e.g. tvaM svin no yAjYavalkya brakmizWo ‘si, ‘do you think Yājñavalkya, you are the greatest Brāhman among us?’, ib.;
also used after uta, api, Aho, and utAho, and disjunctively in the first or second or both parts of a double interrogation, thus: kiMnu-svid;
kiMsvid-svid;
svid-svid;
svid-utAho;
nu-svid;
svid-nu;
svid-uta;
svid-vA;
svid-kimu;
svid-kim-nukim;
sometimes making a preceding interrogative indefinite, e.g. kva/ svid, ‘anywhere’;
ka/H svid, ‘whoever’, ‘any one’;
similarly with yad, e.g. yad svid dIyate, ‘whatever is given’, MaitrS.;
sometimes apparently a mere expletive), RV. &c.;