मर्कट

Etymology 1
Of origin.

Burrow and Gundert take the word as ; compare 🇨🇬. Subrahmanyam considers it to be a compound of mar-kaṭa with the initial being from and latter possibly from, which the original meaning of "one living on trees".

Kuiper proposes the possibility of the word being a prefixed form of a term that also gave rise to.

Similarities to 🇨🇬 / have also been noted, with the ultimate source language perhaps lost to history.

Finally, some have connected the word to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬; note however the form of 🇨🇬, so any influence from Indo-Aryan would have to be exceptionally early.

The "type of bird" meaning listed by lexicographers is probably from a misinterpretation of the "monkey" meaning.

Noun

 * 1) a monkey, ape
 * 2) a mode of coitus
 * 3) a kind of bird (the adjutant or Indian crane)

Noun

 * 1) a monkey-shaped iron bolt

Etymology 2
Of origin. Not related to Etymology 1 above.

Has been suggested to be a prefixed form of a word of the form, whose form has been preserved in  and 🇨🇬.

Alternatively, a hypercorrection of Middle Indic under influence from, with Turner linking the word to  and.

Noun

 * 1) a spider
 * 2) a sort of poison or venom