| Word form | murš |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | man; male [noun] |
| Czech translation | muž, chlap; samec |
| Hungarian translation | férfi; hím |
| Grammatical info | noun, masculine |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *murš M |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 189: perhaps contamination of OIA manuṣya- and puruṣa- |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 89: < OIA púruṣa M |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 114: < contamination of Sanskrit manuṣya- and puruṣa- [T] |
| Turner's etymology | 9828 |
| Other etymologies | – Manuš (1994: 32): < OIA púruṣa M ‘uomo, maschio’; cf. Parya muṛs ‘marito’; the change /p > m/ is attested in IA languages – “The RV and E. Iranian (Avestan) forms look like adaptations of the local self-designation, *Mruža, Vedic mūja-, Avest. muža, and are attested since the middle of the first millennium in early Tib. bruža, Sanskritized puruṣa (von Hinüber 1989, 1980), local 10th cent. inscriptions prūśava (Jettmar 1989: xxxvii), mod. Bur. Burušo.” (Witzel 1999: 52) |