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anupaggamma

gerund (indeclinable)

1. avoiding; not going near

Built from

• anu — prefix · along after
  Trailing behind or following. Anu preserves the sense of adhering to a course or refraining from straying.
• pa — prefix · forth, forward
  Forward motion or intensity. Here intensifying the root √gam (go).
• gam — root · go, walk
  Indo-European root cognate with Latin venire, English come. Concrete spatial root.
• mm — ending · gerund
  Indeclinable gerund ending marking an action as the object of avoidance or abstention; here forming a substantival action-noun.

Analysis. anu + paggamma; paggamma is the gerund of paggamati (to go forth, depart), so anupaggamma means 'going along after' or 'not departing from'—i.e. refraining from going, hence avoiding.

Etymology. anu (along after, following) + paggamati (√gam 'go' with pa- prefix meaning forth/forward). The prefix anu preserves the concrete sense of trailing along or adhering to a path, here transferred to the sense of refraining from departure, hence avoidance. Cognate with Sanskrit anu-gamana.

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

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