Word Origin Summary

*maȷ́ʰā́ is attested in Proto-Indo-Iranian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• महत्

  Sanskrit · inherited from

• maha-

  Indonesian · derived from

• Unsupported titles/Thai name of Bangkok

  Thai · borrowed from

• مه

  FAS · inherited from

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root