The Avestan word is at the source of the name of mythical bird sēnmurw, later Simurgh. The Iranian mərəγō is cognate to Indic mr̥gá-, relating to a wild animal. Possible loanwords.[3]
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^Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996). “śyená-”. In: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] Volume II. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1996. p. 662. (In German)
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^Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996). Entry “mátsya-”. In: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] Volume II. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1996. pp. 297-298. (In German)
^Schmitt, Rüdiger. "113. The lexicon of Indo-Iranian". In: Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics Volume 3. Edited by Jared Klein, Brian Joseph and Matthias Fritz. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. p. 1949. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110542431-034