मद्

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Etymology 1[edit]

Unsure. Either (1) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mad- (to be wet > be drunk) and cognate with Ancient Greek μαδάω (madáō, to be soaking wet) and Latin madeō (to be wet, drunk)[1] or (2) from Proto-Indo-European *med- (to become full, sated) and cognate with Icelandic mettur (sated) and Ancient Greek μεστός (mestós, full).[2]

Root[edit]

मद् (mad)

  1. to rejoice
  2. to be intoxicated
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References[edit]

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “MAD”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 299-300
  2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “2 *med-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 423-25

Further reading[edit]

  • Monier Williams (1899) “मद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 777.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 118
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मद्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016

Etymology 2[edit]

See अहम् (aham).

Pronoun[edit]

मद् (mad)

  1. the stem of अहम् (aham), the first-person personal pronoun.