Where does “ਮੁੱਖ ਕਾਰਨ” come from?
ਮੁੱਖ ਕਾਰਨ (Punjabi) comes from Punjabi ਮੁੱਖ, from Sanskrit मुख्य, from Sanskrit मुख, from Proto-Indo-Iranian múkʰam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian múkHam.
ਮੁੱਖ ਕਾਰਨ (Punjabi): main reason, principal cause
Definitions
- main reason, principal cause
Ancestry of “ਮੁੱਖ ਕਾਰਨ”, step by step
ਮੁੱਖ ਕਾਰਨ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Punjabi ਮੁੱਖ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Punjabi | ਮੁੱਖ | main, chief, principal |
| 2 | Sanskrit | मुख्य | chief; being at the head or at the beginning,... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | मुख | mouth; face; visage |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | múkʰam | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | múkHam | — |
via Punjabi ਕਾਰਨ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Punjabi | ਕਾਰਨ | cause, reason |
| 2 | Sanskrit | कारण | cause or reason of anything; instrument, means;... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | करण | doing, making, effecting, causing; clever,... |
| 4 | Sanskrit | कृ | to make |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷer- | to do; to make; to build |