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akaramheva

akaramha

1st person plural aorist active indicative of karoti

1. akaramha (aor): we did; we made
2. akari (aor): did; practised; performed
3. akari (aor): made

Built from

• a- — prefix · aorist marker
  Reduplicating prefix for past tense; marks simple perfective action in the remote past.
• kar — root · do, make
  Indo-European root: Greek kerannynai 'mix', Latin creare 'create', English 'craft'. Core meaning of action or making.
• -mha — ending · 1st plural aorist
  Marks first person plural in the simple past; related to Sanskrit -ma. Collective agency of 'we'.
• eva — prefix · indeed, just
  Enclitic particle of emphasis and intensity, confirming or reinforcing the action: 'we certainly did / we just made'.

Analysis. akaramha + eva: the aorist akaramha 'we did' is reinforced by the enclitic particle eva 'indeed, just', a common Pali emphatic construction meaning 'we certainly did' or 'we just made'.

Etymology. √kar- 'do, make' is an Indo-European root cognate with Greek kerannynai 'mix', Latin creare 'create', and English 'craft'. The prefix a- marks the aorist tense (simple past). The suffix -mha is the 1st person plural aorist ending, related to Sanskrit -ma.

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

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