apī [api-i] 2 P. (Mostly Vedic) 1 To go in or near, enter into or upon, approach. 2 To have a share in, partake of, suffer; jarāmṛtyuṃpunarevāpiyaṃti Muṇḍ. 3 To join, flow, flow into, dissolve, be resolved into; svamapīto bhavati tasmādenaṃ svapitītyācakṣate Ch. Up. 4 To die. 5 To pour out (as a river).
2.apī (√ i), (Ved.) ápy-eti to go in or near; to enter into or upon; to come near, approach (also in copulation, RV. ii, 43, 2 ind.p. apī́tyā); to partake, have a share in; to join to pour out (as a river).
apī [api-i] 2 P. (Mostly Vedic) 1 To go in or near, enter into or upon, approach. -2 To have a share in, partake of, suffer; jarāmṛtyuṃ punarevāpiyanti Muṇḍ.1.2.7. -3 To join, flow, flow into, dissolve, be resolved into; svamapīto bhavati tasmādenaṃ svapitītyācakṣate Ch. Up. -4 To die. -5 To pour out (as a river).
Apī. — Ludwig1 finds an Apī whose sons are described as not performing sacrifice (a-yajña-sāc) and as breakers of the law of Mitra-Varuṇa in the Rigveda.2 Roth3 and Grassmann take the expression used (apyaḥ putrāḥ) as referring to the sons of the waters. [Footnote] 1) Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 158, 159. [Footnote] 2) vi. 67, 9. [Footnote] 3) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v., apya.