Sunday, February 7, 2010

मुआ مُوا ♣ Eng. murder, mortal

मुआ مُوا ♣ Eng. murder, mortal

[muā], adj. dead.

[◀MIA: Pk. mada-, maya-, mua-, maḍa-, mayaga- ‘dead’; Pa. mata- ‘dead’ ◀OIA mr̥tá- ‘dead’ RV., n. ‘death’ MBh., °aka- n. KātyŚr.com. <√mr̥ ‘die’ ◀PIE *mer-, merǝ- ‘to die, disappear, rub away, harm’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. murder ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. mortal, mortar, mortgage ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 1084; (Turner, 1966) 10278, p.592; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 517; (MW, 1899) 0827; (Pokorny, 1959) 0735; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.318

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