Sanskrit

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Etymology

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Probably from Proto-Indo-European *melk- or *melǵ-; compare Latin mulceō (to stroke, touch lightly).

Pronunciation

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Root

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मृश् (mṛś)

  1. to touch, stroke, handle
  2. to touch mentally, consider, reflect, deliberate

References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “मृश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0831.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मृश्”, 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 126
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मृश्”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 331-2; 373