मज्ज्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

Root

मज्ज् • (majj)

  1. to sink, dive, plunge

Derived terms

References

  • 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