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Etymology edit

Probably borrowed from Dravidian; compare Telugu మొట్టు (moṭṭu, to rap with the knuckles). Perhaps also related to मुण्ट् (muṇṭ, to crush, grind), मूट (mūṭa, a basket or bundle), and Tamil முடை (muṭai, to plait, braid)

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Root edit

मुट् (muṭ)

  1. to crush, grind, break

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “मुट्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 821/3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 123
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 419
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “muṭáti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press