मूर्छ्

• मुर्छ् (murch), मूर्च्छ् (mūrcch)

Likely from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥H-tó-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós (“mortal”), and often compared to Ancient Greek βρότος (brótos, “blood from a wound”); blood (a sign of mortality) spreads out from a wound and coagulates (congeals) on the wound. Mayrhofer accepts that the laryngeal dropped under special phonetic conditions in the root's supposed descendants. According to Machek, also related to Czech smrksnouti se (“to shrink”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /muːɾt͡ɕʰ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːɾt͡ɕʰ/

मूर्छ् • (mūrch)

1. to become solid, thicken, congeal, assume shape or substance or consistency, expand, increase, grow, become or be vehement or intense or strong
2. to fill, pervade, penetrate, spread over
3. to have power or take effect upon (locative case)
4. to grow stiff or rigid, faint, swoon, become senseless or stupid or unconscious
5. to cause to sound aloud
6. to deafen
7. to cause to thicken or coagulate (milk)
8. to cause to settle into a fixed or solid form, shape
9. to strengthen, rouse, excite
10. to cause to sound loudly, play (a musical instrument)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मूर्छ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 823.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 367-368
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 665