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agacchiṁ

gacchati

1st person singular aorist indicative of gacchati (√gam)

1. I went
2. I departed
3. I traveled

Built from

• a — prefix · toward
  Directional particle reversing √gam 'go' into motion toward the speaker or a goal. Cognate with Sanskrit ā.
• gacch — root · go, walk
  √gam 'to go'; cognates include Latin venio 'come', Greek bainō 'walk', English come, and German kommen.
• iṁ — ending · 1st singular aorist
  Marks the utterance as first person singular past tense (aorist), a simple narrative form of completed action.

Analysis. a- (preverb, toward) + gacchiṁ (aorist stem); a- reverses the direction of √gam to mean 'come' or 'go toward', but in aorist the basic sense 'went' dominates.

Etymology. √gam 'to go'; cognate with Latin venio 'come', Greek bainō 'walk', English come. The prefix a- (toward the speaker) originally made āgacchati 'comes' (comes toward), but the aorist surface form shows the root sense.

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

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