[INDOLOGY] Etymology of Mukunda

[Andrew Ollett]

I remind everyone that Manfred Mayrhofer spent his entire life writing
etymological dictionaries of Sanskrit, the Etymologisches Wörterbuch des
Altindoarischen and the Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch des
Altindischen. Even if you don't read German (and the KEWA has English
glosses), you are always better off trying to make sense of his comments
than Whitney's (or almost anyone else's) guesses. For most of the words
mentioned in this thread, he has reliable and relatively up-to-date
comments. He refers to the two possible explanations for gōvinda-
(including references to Vedic gōvíd- and gōvindú-, gā́ ávindan, Avestan
vīdat̰.gu-, etc.) and adduces ἐρέβινθος ‘chickpea’ and Kannada are-viri ‘be
half open’ in the case of aravinda-.

2018-06-03 17:19 GMT+02:00 Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> 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> 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> 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> 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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