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āgaccheyya
āgacchati
opt 3rd sg of āgacchati (verb); opt 3rd sg of āgaccheyya (verb)
- āgacchati (pr): comes (to); arrives (at); reaches; lit. comes here
- āgacchati (pr): comes along; approaches; lit. comes here
- āgacchati (pr): comes back; returns (to); lit. comes here
- āgacchati (pr): comes out; flows out; lit. comes here
- āgacchati (pr): happens; befalls; occurs (to); lit. comes here
- āgaccheyya (opt): could come; would come along; could approach; would arrive; lit. would come here
Built from
- ā — prefix · toward
Motion reversed toward the speaker; concrete spatial sense of approach and arrival preserved in the abstract notion of becoming or happening.
- gacch — root · go
Sanskrit gacchati, Latin venire (via Indo-European *gʰem-). The root denotes motion or transit in space.
- eyya — ending · optative 3rd sg
Optative mood marking possibility, condition, or wish ('could', 'would', 'might'); -e- tense marker plus -yya personal ending for 3rd singular.
Analysis. ā- + gacchati: ā (toward the speaker, reversing motion) + √gam (go), hence 'comes here' or 'arrives'.
Etymology. √gam 'go' (Sanskrit gacchati, Latin venire [obsolete cognate]; English come is unrelated). The prefix ā- (toward, up to) reverses the direction of √gam from 'going away' to 'coming toward'; this directional shift is fundamental to the word's meaning in Pali.