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ādicco

ādicca

masc nom sg of ādicca (noun)

1. sun

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward
  The prefix ā- reverses or orients motion toward the speaker or observer; here it frames the sun as that which comes toward or manifests to us.
• dicca — root · show, point
  From √dic 'to show' or 'to point'; the concrete sense is of display or radiation. Not attested as a bare root in Pali, but the prefix-root analysis explains the folk etymology from the sun's visible pointing rays.

Etymology. From ā- (toward) + √dic (to show, point), literally 'that which points toward'; the concrete imagery is of the sun's rays pointing earthward. Related to Sanskrit ādityá (Aditya, sun god, 'the unconstrained one'), from ádi 'beginning, free' — though Pali reanalyzed the word through the prefix ā- and a root dic.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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