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anantarahitāya

anantarahita

fem instr sg of anantarahita (pp); masc dat sg of anantarahita (pp); fem dat sg of anantarahita (pp); nt dat sg of anantarahita (pp); …

1. bare; uncovered; unconcealed; lit. not disappeared

Built from

• a — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation. Cognate with English un-, Greek a(n)-.
• antara — stem · between, interval
  From anta- (end, boundary), denoting the space between boundaries. Cognate with Latin ante- (before) and English anti- in the sense of opposed/separated.
• hita — root · placed, put
  Past participle of √dhā (place, put). The concrete sense is physical placement; here it frames the idea of being placed or concealed by intervening space.

Analysis. a- (not) + antara (interval, between) + hita (put, placed) = not placed in between, exposed

Etymology. The prefix a- (not) negates antara- (between, from anta- end, boundary; cognate with English "anti-", Latin "ante-"); hita is the past participle of dhā (place, put), showing the concrete image of something not concealed or set apart by an intervening space.

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

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