Talk:मोक्ष

@माधवपंडित Any idea if this had a PIE root? —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 01:52, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

@Aryamanarora Its root मुच् (muc) seems very likely to have had a PIE root. I'm still trying to find it. माधवपंडित (talk) 02:28, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

@Aryamanarora I found it; according to Monier-Williams, मुच् (muc) is related to Latin mucus and Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs) from a PIE *mew-k (“to slip”). I had hypothesized it as *mewkʷ.

http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/0800/mw__0853.html माधवपंडित (talk) 02:38, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

@माधवपंडित: Hmm, I wonder how the sense liberation came about. —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 16:45, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

@Aryamanarora: Could have developed from the sense "slipping out of"? Because originally मुच् means riddance or release. I'm guessing it developed from "slippery" > "slipping out of (something)" > "riddance" > "liberation" माधवपंडित (talk) 01:58, 15 May 2017 (UTC)