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accagamā

imperf 3rd sg of accagamā (verb)

1. overcame; surmounted; conquered; transcended; lit. went beyond
2. (of a fault) overcame; overtook; lit. went beyond

Built from

• acci — prefix · beyond, over
  Pali assimilation of ati- 'over, beyond' before a vowel; the prefix carries the sense of exceeding a limit or going past the mark.
• gam — root · go
  √gam 'to go, move'; cognate with Latin venio 'come' and English come via Indo-European *gwem-.
• ā — ending · 3rd sg imperfect
  Pali imperfect ending marking past tense, 3rd person singular. Indicates the action as an ongoing or habitual event in the past.

Analysis. acci + gamā, where acci is the prefix ati- 'beyond, over' with the vowel assimilated in Pali sandhi (ati- + a- > acci-), and gamā is the 3rd sg imperfect of gacchati 'go'. Literally 'went beyond'.

Etymology. The root is √gam 'to go', cognate with Latin venio 'come' and English come. The prefix ati- means 'over, beyond, exceeding', from the same Indo-European root as Greek eti 'still, besides'. The compound ati-gam- preserves the spatial sense: to go beyond or past a boundary.

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

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