The story
- Proto-Indo-Iranian · derived from*mátsyas
- Sanskrit · borrowed fromमत्स्य“fish”
- English todayMatsya
Borrowed from Sanskrit मत्स्य (mátsya, “fish”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mátsyas.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Matsya
Today it means: The first of ten successive avatars of the god Vishnu, who saved the first man Manu from a great flood in the form of a fish. Full definition →
Sanskrit मत्स्य ← Proto-Indo-Iranian *mátsyas