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appakasireneva

appakasirena

indeclinable + eva

1. easily; with no difficulty; with little trouble

Built from

• appa — root · small, little
  Likely < Indo-European *(s)peuh₂-, related to Sanskrit alpa 'small' and Greek spanos. The concrete sense of smallness extends to 'slight, meager'.
• kasirena — stem · with difficulty
  Instrumental singular of kasira 'difficult, hard'. The root is obscure, but the instrumental case marks the manner or means: 'by/with difficulty'.
• eva — prefix · indeed, just
  Emphatic particle; cognate with Sanskrit eva. Often enclitic, reinforcing the preceding word or phrase.

Analysis. appakasirena + eva; appakasirena is appa + kasirena. appa (little, small) + kasirena (with difficulty, instrumental singular of kasira 'difficult'). The sense is 'with little difficulty', hence 'easily'. eva is the emphatic particle 'indeed, just'.

Etymology. appa < *(s)p-: compare Sanskrit alpa 'small', Greek spanos 'sparse'. kasira is of uncertain origin but related to the semantic field of hardship; the construction kasirena literally means 'with difficulty' (instrumental of kasira), so appakasirena inverts this to mean 'with-little-difficulty'. eva is an old particle cognate with Sanskrit eva 'just, indeed'.

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

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