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āmantesi

āmanteti

pr 2nd sg of āmanteti (verb); aor 3rd sg of āmantesi (verb); aor 2nd sg of āmantesi (verb)

1. āmanteti (pr): invites; calls; summons
2. āmantesi (aor): addressed; said (to); advised

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward (reversal)
  Reverses motion and turns thinking outward into addressing. Cognates: Skt. ā; no common European cognate.
• mant — root · think, counsel
  Concrete sense of bending the mind toward something. Cognate: English mind (PIE *men- 'to think'), Skt. manas 'mind'.
• e — ending · present stem formant
  The thematic vowel e marks the present stem class; in the aorist āmantesi, -si is the 2nd/3rd sg aorist ending.

Analysis. ā + √mant, with the prefix ā- reversing the direction of the root: 'turns toward (someone) with counsel or address'.

Etymology. √mant (to think, counsel) appears in Skt. mantrayate 'deliberates, counsels' and is related to Skt. manas 'mind' and English mind (both from PIE *men- 'to think'). The prefix ā- (toward the speaker) converts the root's introspective sense into interpersonal address: thinking toward someone becomes speaking to them.

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

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