मध्वद्

From मधु (mádhu), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey, mead”) + अद् (ád), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“eat”). Compare Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐdʱ.ʋɐ́d/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐd̪ʱ.ʋɐd̪/

मध्वद् • (madhvád) stem

1. eating sweetness, literally, honey-eater (used in some cultures to refer to a bear)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मध्वद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 781, column 2.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “médhu”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 707
• 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 261