Lemizh / English dictionary
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màj.
to bind/tie something/someone-acc to something-dat with a rope
mùj. rope
Etymology
< NLem maljm‑a ‘restrain, bind with a rope’
< LMLem, MLem malngw‑a ‘hinder, restrain’
< OLem malngw‑
< PLem *malngw‑, nasal-infix present of
< PIE *melkʷ‑ ‘hinder, harm, destroy’
Ramo apparently was the first to let his sailors in the Tlöngö̀l use the tool noun of ‘restrain’ instead of the standard word for ‘rope’, NLem sxn‑a (<< PIE *sh₂ei̯‑ ‘fetter, bind’, cognate with Ger Seil ‘rope’).
Cognates
Gk βλάπτω ‘hinder, harm’, Ved marcáyati ‘damage’