muñcati

Etymology
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The use of the active form with passive meaning has been attributed to a similarity at some point of writings of the conjuncts 'cc' and 'ñc'.

Although printed Pali uses touching letters for the most part and restricts conjuncts to those with and  and those which remove the right hand portion of,  and , much greater use of conjuncts has been made in manuscripts. Thus it is reported that there is a ligature for 'cc' (but ) as well as for 'ñc' namely. Now, the latter is formed by prefixing sanyaka, which can denote a nasal sound or else gemination, and it is possible that we have a conflict in usage. For consonants other than palatals, sanyaka seems to denote a nasal only for the voiced unaspirated stop.

Verb

 * 1) to loose
 * 2) to release
 * 3) to dismiss, to give up, to abandon, to omit
 * 4) to send forth

Conjugation

 * Past participle:, which see for forms and usage
 * Passive:, which see for forms and usage.