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āmisesu

āmisa

masc loc pl of āmisa (adj); nt loc pl of āmisa (adj); nt loc pl of āmisa (noun)

1. material; physical; worldly; lit. fleshly
2. worldly gain; profit; material benefit; lit. fleshly
3. worldly thing; physical item; material stuff; lit. fleshly
4. meat; bait; lit. fleshly
5. food; lit. fleshly

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward; drawn in
  Prefix reversing or directing motion toward the speaker. Here, things that draw toward one, that one gathers up.
• mis — root · mix; mingle
  From √meṃs/√mih. Cognate with Latin miscēre (mix), English mingle, Sanskrit meṣ. Material and food are what are mixed together, mingled with the body.
• a — ending · nominative masculine singular
  Masculine singular nominalizing suffix, making the verb root into a noun. The locative plural -su follows from the declined singular.

Etymology. From ā- (toward; reversal of motion) + √mis/meṃs (to mix, mingle). The root appears in Sanskrit meṣ (to mix, join), cognate with Latin miscēre (to mix), English mingle, Greek mignynal (μίγνυμι). The prefix ā- marks what draws toward oneself—material things that one gathers and mixes into experience. Literally 'what is brought together,' hence 'fleshly matter, sustenance.'

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

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