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anāgatamaddhānanti

anāgatamaddhānaṃ

ind. (indeclinable adverbial phrase)

1. in the future; lit. future time

Built from

• an- — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation; cognate with English un- and Greek a(n)-.
• ā- — prefix · toward, coming
  Reverses the direction of √gam 'go'; cognate with Sanskrit ā-, lending 'come' to āgata.
• gata — root · gone, come
  From √gam 'to go', cognate with English come and Latin venio.
• maddhāna — stem · middle, time
  Derived from majjhe 'middle' (spatial location reanalyzed as temporal); the medial or intermediate period.
• iti — ending · quotative, thus
  Marks the boundary of a cited phrase or sets off reported speech; often untranslated.

Analysis. anāgata (future, not-come) + maddhāna (time, middle) + iti (quotative particle); literally 'in future-time', used as a temporal adverbial.

Etymology. anāgata: an- (not) + āgata (come, from ā- reversing √gam 'go'); maddhāna from majjhe 'middle' with -āna suffix; iti marks quoted speech or cited forms. The prefix an- is the negation seen in English un-, Greek a(n)-; ā- reverses the direction of √gam, turning it from 'going' to 'coming toward the speaker', as in āgacchati. Maddhāna 'middle time' is the medial location reanalyzed temporally.

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

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