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āyatiṁ

āyati

accusative singular feminine of āyati (noun); or locative singular of āyati in some contexts. The form āyatiṁ appears as an accusative/dative used adverbially, 'for the future', 'hereafter'.

1. future time
2. hereafter
3. in time to come

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward
  Prefix marking approach or reversal; here it transforms √i 'go' into a forward-looking temporal sense.
• yati — stem · going
  Derived from √i 'to go'; the feminine noun āyati denotes a going-forward, hence 'future time' or 'that which is to come'.
• ṁ — ending · accusative/dative
  Accusative or dative case ending on feminine noun; here used adverbially to mean 'toward the future, hereafter'.

Analysis. ā + yati, from √i 'go': the prefix ā- (toward the speaker, motion reversed) combined with the root for 'going' yields 'that which comes toward (the future)', reinterpreted as a noun denoting the time ahead.

Etymology. √i 'go' (cognate with Latin ire, English iterate); prefix ā- reverses the direction of motion, originally meaning 'toward the speaker', here used to express futurity as time approaching.

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

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