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āgacchantaṁ

āgacchati

accusative singular masculine present participle of āgacchati (3rd person singular would be āgacchati; the participle form āgacchant- is here inflected to accusative singular āgacchantaṁ)

1. coming
2. approaching
3. arriving

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward
  Directional prefix meaning toward the speaker; reverses the direction of √gam to yield approach/arrival rather than departure.
• gacch — root · go
  Root √gam (go), cognate with English 'come' and German 'gehen'. In Pali the root appears as gacch- in present-stem formation.
• ant — ending · present participle
  Present participle suffix -ant-, forming an adjective meaning 'going/coming'; agrees with head noun in gender, case, number.
• aṁ — ending · accusative singular
  Accusative singular masculine ending, marking the participle as the object of a verb or other governing case.

Analysis. ā + gacchati: ā- (toward the speaker) + √gam (go), so literally 'going toward', meaning to come or approach (the prefix ā reverses the direction of motion verbs).

Etymology. ā- (toward) + √gam (go, cognate with English 'come', German 'gehen', Sanskrit gam-). The prefix ā- reverses simple motion: gacchati means 'goes away', but āgacchati means 'comes toward'.

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

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