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āhuneyyo

āhuneyya

masc nom sg of āhuneyya (adj)

1. worthy of offerings; lit. to be offered to

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward
  Motion-reversing prefix. Here draws attention toward the object as recipient: what is offered to.
• hu — root · offer, sacrifice
  Ritual root, cognate with Sanskrit √hu and Greek khyein (pour). Concrete sense: casting into fire or pouring libation.
• neyya — ending · gerundival, "to be done"
  Passive potential suffix -neyyā (to be + past participle sense). Forms adjectives meaning "worthy of" or "fit for" the action of the root.

Analysis. ā + √hu, "toward" + "offer" (sacrificial/ritual sense); hence "to be offered to, worthy of receiving offerings"

Etymology. ā (reversal prefix) + √hu (offer, sacrifice; cognate with Sanskrit √hu, Greek khyein "pour"). The prefix ā reverses the intransitive sense of √hu to create a passive-potential: what fire or priest moves toward (offers), becomes what one should move toward with offerings.

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

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