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akkhātā

akkhāta

masc nom pl of akkhāta (pp); fem nom sg of akkhāta (pp); fem nom pl of akkhāta (pp); nt nom pl of akkhāta (pp); …

1. akkhāta (pp): said; told; declared; announced (by)
2. akkhātar (masc): speaker (of); who tells (about); who speaks (about); who expresses (about)

Built from

• akh — root · say, speak
  PIE *h₂eǵ- (to speak, say). The root appears in compounds with prefixes that modify its sense: e.g., akkhāta itself is the bare past participle, while forms like anakkhāta (a- + akh + -āta) mean 'unsaid, untold'.
• -ta — ending · past participle
  Standard Pali past participle suffix (< PIE *-tó-), forming adjectives denoting completed action. It agrees in number and gender with the noun it qualifies: here shown in multiple nominative forms.

Etymology. √akh (say, speak) + -ta (past participle ending). The root akh is the Pali reflex of PIE *h₂eǵ- (say, speak), which also appears in Greek ἀγορεύω (agoreuō, speak in the assembly) and Latin ago (drive, do, speak). The past participle -ta marks completed action.

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

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