Sanskrit

Noun

वाच् • ‎(vā́c) f

1. speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum etc.)

   वाचम् ‎(vācam)-√ṛ, √īr or √iṣ — to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call

2. a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration

   वाचं ‎(vācaṃ)-√vad — to speak words

   वाचं व्या ‎(vācaṃ vyā)-√hṛ — to utter words

   वाचं ‎(vācaṃ)-√dā +dative — to address words to

   वाचा सत्यं ‎(vācā satyaṃ)-√kṛ — to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth

3. Speech personified as the goddess of speech Vāc

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0936