appattaṁ

appatta

accusative singular neuter of appatta (past participle of appatati)

not reached
unattained
not arrived at

Built from

a — prefix · not, without
Plain negation, negating the meaning of the root that follows.
ppa — root · reach, go
Causally compressed form of √pad 'to go, fall, reach'. Cognate with Latin pes 'foot', English foot.

Analysis. a- (not) + ppatta (reached, from √pad 'go'), literally 'not-reached'; used in the canon to describe states or qualities that have not been realized or attained.

Etymology. a- (privative prefix) + ppatta, past participle of appatati (to reach, attain). The root √pad (to go, fall) is cognate with Latin pes 'foot' and English foot. The prefix a- appears in English un-, Greek a(n)-, and Sanskrit a-.

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

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