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adhunāgatā

adhunāgata

masc nom pl of adhunāgata (adj); fem nom sg of adhunāgata (adj); fem nom pl of adhunāgata (adj); nt nom pl of adhunāgata (adj); …

1. recently come; newly arrived (to)

Built from

• adhuva — root · now, present
  An old temporal root marking the immediate present moment. Akin to Sanskrit adhunam and Greek anti in the sense of what confronts us in the present.
• -ā — ending · locative sg
  Adverbial locative ending, fixing the temporal reference to the present time.
• gam — root · go, come
  Indo-European root; cognates include English 'come', German 'kommen', Sanskrit gacchati. Concrete image of motion toward or away.
• -ta — ending · past participle
  Past participle suffix forming the adjective. In compounds like this, it marks the action as completed or the state as resultant.

Analysis. adhunā (adverb, 'now, recently') + gata (past participle of gacchati, 'gone, come'). Literally 'now-gone', i.e. one who has come recently.

Etymology. adhunā is an old locative form of adhuva- (now, present time), cognate with Sanskrit adhunam and related to Greek anti 'facing, opposite' in the sense of 'the present moment facing us'. Gata derives from the root √gam (come, go), which has cognates in English 'come' and Sanskrit gacchati.

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

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