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ālokite

ālokita

nt acc pl of ālokita (noun); nt loc sg of ālokita (noun)

1. looking ahead; looking forward; lit. looked here

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Reverses the motion of the root: lokati 'looks (outward)' becomes ālokita '(having) looked toward/at (the speaker or a focal point)'. Sanskrit ā; no common European cognate.
• lok — root · see, look, light
  Proto-Indo-European *leuk- 'light, brightness, to see'. Cognates: Latin lux 'light', English look, German Licht. The concrete image of light passing into the mind grounds both 'seeing' and 'illumination'.
• ita — ending · past participle
  Marks a completed action and converts the root into a nominal form that can take noun endings (-e here: accusative plural or locative singular neuter).

Analysis. ā + lokita: ā (toward, up to) + lokita (past participle of lokati, 'sees, looks'). The prefix ā reverses the directional sense of √lok 'see', turning it inward or toward the agent: 'looking toward' or 'having looked at'.

Etymology. √lok 'see, look' (cognate with Latin lux 'light', English look) + prefix ā (toward the speaker, reversing motion). The root's underlying sense 'light' and 'seeing' appear in the same Indo-European family.

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

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