मॄ

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

मृ (mṛ)
मृण् (mṛṇ)

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-

Proto-Indo-Iranian *marH-

Proto-Indo-European *merh₂-influ.

Sanskrit मॄ

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-Iranian *marH-. It may represent a merger of two Proto-Indo-European roots *merh₂- (“to crumble, crush”) (perhaps whence μάρναμαι (márnamai)) and *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /mr̩ː/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /mr̩ː/

Root

मॄ • (mṝ)^[3]^[4]

to crush, grind

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

मृणाति (mṛṇāti, present)
मृ॒णति॑ (mṛṇáti, present)
अमारीत् (amārīt, aorist)
ममार (mamāra, perfect)

Secondary forms

मू॒र्यते॑ (mūryáte, passive)

Derived nominal forms

मू॒र्ण (mūrṇá)
मृण (mṛṇa)
मरीतृ (marītṛ)
मुरि॑ (múri)
मुर् (mur)

Category Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मॄ not found

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मॄ (3 c, 0 e)

References

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “MAR^I¹”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 319
^ Kulikov, Leonid (1 April 2024), “The Vedic root variants of the type CaC // C(C)ā: Formal patterns and transitivity types (Indo-Aryan evidence for the Indo-European Schwebeablaut and laryngeal root extension)”, in Mother Tongue‎^[2], volume 25, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 40
^ Monier Williams (1899), “मॄ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 831.
^ William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124

[1] Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “MAR^I¹”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 319

[2] Kulikov, Leonid (1 April 2024), “The Vedic root variants of the type CaC // C(C)ā: Formal patterns and transitivity types (Indo-Aryan evidence for the Indo-European Schwebeablaut and laryngeal root extension)”, in Mother Tongue‎^[2], volume 25, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 40

[3] Monier Williams (1899), “मॄ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 831.

[4] William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124

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