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मृष्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *mers- (to bother, anger, forget). Cognate with Lithuanian miršti (to forget, lose, become oblivious), Latvian aizmirst (to forget), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, to annoy, bother, disturb, offend), Tocharian A märs- (to forget), Lithuanian miršti, Old Armenian մոռանամ (moṙanam), English mar.

Pronunciation

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Root

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मृष् (mṛṣ)

  1. to forget, neglect
  2. to disregard
  3. to pardon, forgive, excuse
  4. to suffer

References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “मृष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0831.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मृष्”, 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 126
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मृष्”, 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