Piotr:
>My personal suspicion (which I haven't researched properly, to be
>sure) is that <mleccha-> 'barbarian' may be native -- a deverbal noun.
>There is also a related verb, <mlecchati> 'speak
>incomprehensibly', [...] Needless to say, <meluhha> would be unrelated.
I hate to be devil's advocate in this case since I'm also highly
skeptical of the whole Meluhha/mleccha- ordeal, but what you are
saying doesn't explain the other meaning "copper". It appears
that second meaning is listed in the very handy "Apte Sanskrit
Dictionary Search":
http://aa2411s.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~tjun/sktdic/
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