मृध्

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Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *méldʰ-e-ti (to abandon);[1] or from *mel-dʰeh₁- an extension of *(s)mel- (false, bad);[2] or from an extension of *melh₂- (to grind, crush) (see there).

Pronunciation

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Root

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मृध् (mṛdh)

  1. to neglect, forsake, abandon
  2. to be moist, moisten[3]

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*meldʰ-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 431
  2. ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2011–2023) “*meldʰ-”, in Addenda und Corrigenda zu LIV²[1], page 60
  3. ^ Only found in: Monier Williams (1899) “मृध्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0830.

Further reading

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  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मृध्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 126
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मृध्”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 328f.
  • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) “716-719”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 716-719