मुखिया مُکِھیا ♣ Eng. mute, mystery

मुखिया مُکِھیا ♣ Eng. mute, mystery

[mukʰiyā], m. a chief, head (of a village).

[◀MIA: Pk. mukkha- ‘chief’; Pa. mukkhaka- ‘foremost, chief’ ◀OIA múkhya- ‘pertaining to face or mouth’ AV., ‘chief’ TS. <.múkha- n. ‘mouth, face’ RV., ‘entrance’ MBh. ◀PIE *mū̆- ‘(onomatopoeic) to murmur, hum, moo’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. mute, mystery ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 1060; (Turner, 1966) 10174, 10158; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 534; (MW, 1899) 0820, 0819; (Pokorny, 1959) 0751; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.360