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anekavihitaṁ

anekavihita

accusative singular neuter of anekavihita (adjective)

1. manifold, varied, of many kinds
2. diverse in appearance or quality

Built from

• anu — prefix · following, along
  The prefix anu- trails along, suggesting multiplicity in sequence or variety following one after another.
• eka — stem · one, single
  Here used in an intensive or distributive sense; related to Sanskrit eka and English "one".
• vihita — stem · arranged, distributed
  From √vah (carry, distribute); suggests things carried or arranged in different ways.
• ṁ — ending · accusative singular neuter
  The -ṁ ending marks the accusative case, singular neuter gender, used when anekavihita is the direct object of a verb.

Analysis. anu + eka + vihita (contraction/compound). anu- (along, following) + eka (one) + vihita (distributed, arranged; from √vah

Etymology. From anu- (following, various) + eka (one) + vihita (arranged), the compound originally conveys

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

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