मद्गु

From Proto-Indo-European *mesg-ú-s (“diver bird”), from *mesg- (“to plunge, to dip”). Cognate with Latin mergus (“diver bird”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐd.ɡú/,
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐd̪.ɡu/,

मद्गु • (madgú) stem, m

1. diver (loon), a kind of waterfowl
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Śukla-Yajurveda (Vājasenayi Saṃhitā) 24.37:

     सोमा॑य ह॒ꣳसान् आ ल॑भते वा॒यवे॑ ब॒लाका॑ ऽ इन्द्रा॒ग्निभ्यां॒ क्रुञ्चा॑न् मि॒त्राय॑ म॒द्गून् वरु॑णाय चक्रवा॒कान् ॥

     sómāya haṃsā́n ā́ labhate vāyáve balā́kā ʼ indrāgníbhyāṃ krúñcān mitrā́ya madgū́n váruṇāya cakravākā́n.

     To Soma he presents wild geese; to Vāyu female cranes; to Indra-Agni curlews; to Mitra diver birds; to Varuna Chakravākas.

• Monier Williams (1899) “मद्गु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 779, column 2.