म्लात

Sanskrit

Possibly from Proto-Indo-Aryan *mlaHtás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mlaHtás (whence Avestan 𐬨𐬭𐬁𐬙𐬀 (mrāta)), passive past participle of *mláHti (whence Ossetian фӕллад (fællad, “to get tired, weary”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mléh₂-ti, from *mleh₂- (“to make weak, soft, tender”) +‎ *-ti.^[1] Cognate with Old Irish mláith, Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós).

म्लात • (mlātá) stem^[2]

^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2017–2018) “Chapter XVII: Indo-Iranian”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The phonology of Proto-Indo-Iranian, page 1876
^ Monier Williams (1899) “म्लात”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 838.