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apagatakāḷakaṁ

apagata

nominative singular neuter of apagata (past participle of apagacchati)

1. gone away
2. departed
3. removed

Built from

• apa — prefix · away, off
  Spatial prefix meaning motion away or removal. Cognates: Greek apo-, Latin ab-, English off.
• gata — ending · gone, departed
  Past participle of √gam, marking completed motion. Here functioning as the adjectival stem.

Analysis. apa- (away, off) + gata (gone, past participle of gacchati 'go'); -kāḷaka appears to be a dialectal or textual variant marking, possibly a scribal addition or metrical insertion; the core compound means 'having gone away'

Etymology. apa- (prefix, 'away'; cognate with Greek apo-, Latin ab-, English off) + gata from √gam 'to go' (cognate with English come, Latin venio). The prefix reverses the motion: what goes away is removed from presence.

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

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