[INDOLOGY] Etymology of Mukunda

[Hock, Hans Henrich]

fwiw: Another possible source of govinda is gopendra ‘chief of the cowherds’

Hans Henrich


On 3 Jun 2018, at 10:06, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:

Thank you Madhav,

You mention aravinda as possibly non-indo-european.  Does that also apply to govinda?
Monier-Williams has govinda as go-vinda with vinda ifc as "finding".  But I vaguely recall (though I can't find it anymore) that MacDonells or Whitneys grammar   had a footnote somewhere that the etymology of govinda was uncertain and that it might be from go+indra through the prakrit.

Harry Spier

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu<mailto:mmdesh at umich.edu>> wrote:
I was under the impression that words like Mukunda, Aravinda, Maranda, Mucakunda were historically of non-Indo-European origin.  Did Michael Witzel write something about such words?  Trying to remember.  Best,

Madhav Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
Dear list members,

Can someone give the etymology of mukunda?

Is the information in Monier-Williams under "muku" a folk-etymology?
muku = mukti (a word formed to explain mukun-da as "giver of liberation")

Thanks,
Harry Spier

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