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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (to dip, sink). Cognate with Latin mergō (dip, immerse), Lithuanian mazgóti (to wash), Latvian mazgât (to wash), Russian Москва́ (Moskvá, Moscow).

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मज्ज् (majj)

  1. to sink, dive, plunge

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “मज्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0773.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मज्ज्”, 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 116
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मज्ज्”, 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