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āpajjati
pr 3rd sg of āpajjati (verb)
- comes to; experiences; gets (pleasure); suffers (pain); meets (with)
- arouses; exhibits; produces; brings into being
- engages in
- (of an offence) commits; falls into
- causes; effects
- enters into a state or condition; becomes
- (logic) to follow logically
- achieves; reaches; attains
Built from
- ā — prefix · toward; reversing motion
The spatial sense 'toward the speaker' or 'up to' inverts the direction of the root's motion: coming toward rather than going away.
- pad — root · go, fall, reach
The root √pad- (also √padj-) carries the sense of approaching or arriving at a destination, akin to Sanskrit pad- 'foot' and the notion of treading or stepping into a state.
- -j — stem · to go
Causative or iterative extension of the root, marking the habitual or frequentative aspect.
- -ati — ending · 3rd sg present
Present indicative active ending, marking third person singular and the speaker's present temporal perspective.
Etymology. ā- (toward, reversing the direction of motion) + √padj (to go, fall, arrive). The prefix ā- reverses the sense of motion inherent in the root: where padj means to go away or depart, ā-padj means to come toward the speaker or to arrive at a state. Cognate to Sanskrit āpadyate.