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akantehi

akanta

masc instr pl of akanta (pp); nt instr pl of akanta (pp); masc abl pl of akanta (pp); nt abl pl of akanta (pp)

1. akanta (pp): unpleasant; unwelcome; disagreeable
2. akantehi (ind): unpleasantly; in an undesired way

Built from

• a- — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. Cognates: English un-, Greek a(n)- (atheist).
• kant- — root · please, desire
  Past participle of kamati 'to desire' or 'to please'. Related to Sanskrit kāma 'desire'.
• -a — ending · past participle
  Masculine/neuter nominative singular ending forming a past participle.

Etymology. a- (not) + kanta (past participle of kamati, to please or desire). The root kam- appears in Sanskrit kāma 'desire' and is cognate with English 'come' and Greek 'kan-' in the sense of striving or meeting; thus kanta literally means 'pleasing' or 'desired', and akanta negates this to mean 'unpleasing' or 'undesired'.

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

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