मृज्

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Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European *h₃merǵ-
    Sanskrit मृज् (mṛj)

    Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₃merǵ- (“to wipe”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὀμόργνῡμῐ (omórgnūmi, “to wipe”).

    Pronunciation

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    मृज् • (mṛj)

    1. to wipe, rub, cleanse, polish
    2. to purify, embellish, adorn

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    The root मृक्ष् (mṛkṣ) is probably derived from the desiderative of this term.
    The word मार्जार (mārjāra) is traditionally connected with this root, but that is certainly a folk etymology.

    Descendants

    Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मृज् (8 c, 0 e)

    References

    • Monier Williams (1899) “मृज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 829, column 2.
    • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मृज्”, 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 125
    • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मृज्”, 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
    • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “mṛj”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “MARJ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 324-6
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