म्लात

Sanskrit

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

Adjective

म्लात • (mlātá) stem[2]

  1. tanned, softened (leather)
  • म्लायति (mlā́yati, “to become weary”)
  • (perhaps) म्रदते (mradate, “to become soft”)
  • (perhaps) मृदु (mṛdu, “soft, weak”)

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “म्लात”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 838.
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