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akāsi

aor 3rd sg of akāsi (verb); aor 2nd sg of akāsi (verb)

1. did; performed
2. made

Built from

• a — prefix · non-thematic marker
  In the aorist system, a- is a tense marker rather than the negation prefix; it marks the perfective aspect of the past action.
• kā — root · make, do
  From Indo-European *ker- (to make, craft). The long ā shows reduplication or ablaut in the aorist tense. Cognates: Latin creāre, English 'create', Skt. kārayati.
• si — ending · 3rd sg. aorist
  The aorist personal ending -si (or -t for 3rd sg.) marks the simple past tense in the 3rd person singular.

Etymology. From √kar- (Skt. √kṛ), 'to make, do'; cognate with Latin creare 'create', Greek keras 'craft', English 'create'. The aorist stem akāsi reflects the zero-grade root *kr- with the thematic vowel a- and aorist ending -si/-t.

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

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