मथ्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

मन्थ् (manth)

Alternative scripts

মথ্ (Assamese script)
ᬫᬣ᭄ (Balinese script)
মথ্ (Bengali script)
𑰦𑰞𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀫𑀣𑁆 (Brahmi script)
မထ် (Burmese script)
મથ્ (Gujarati script)
ਮਥ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌮𑌥𑍍 (Grantha script)
ꦩꦡ꧀ (Javanese script)
𑂧𑂟𑂹 (Kaithi script)
ಮಥ್ (Kannada script)
មថ៑ (Khmer script)
ມຖ຺ (Lao script)
മഥ് (Malayalam script)
ᠮᠠᡨ (Manchu script)
𑘦𑘞𑘿 (Modi script)
ᠮᠠᠲ (Mongolian script)
𑧆𑦾𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
𑐩𑐠𑑂 (Newa script)
ମଥ୍ (Odia script)
ꢪꢢ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
𑆩𑆡𑇀 (Sharada script)
𑖦𑖞𑖿 (Siddham script)
මථ් (Sinhalese script)
𑩴𑩬 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
𑚢𑚚𑚶 (Takri script)
மத்² (Tamil script)
మథ్ (Telugu script)
มถฺ (Thai script)
མ་ཐ྄ (Tibetan script)
𑒧𑒟𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
𑨢𑨚𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

A conflation of two Proto-Indo-European roots *menth₂- (“to stir, mix up”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *męstì (“to stir”)) and *meth₂- (“to tear away”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐtʰ/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /mɐt̪ʰ/

Root

मथ् • (math)

to stir, whirl around
to rotate
to churn
to mix, mingle
to agitate, trouble

References

Monier Williams (1899) “मथ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 777, column 1.
Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मथ्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 117
Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मथ्”, 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
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 298-9; 311-2
Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 259
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 438-9; 442-3
Pokorny, Julius (1959) “732”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 732