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appiyehi

appiya

masc instr pl of appiya (adj); nt instr pl of appiya (adj); masc abl pl of appiya (adj); nt abl pl of appiya (adj); …

1. not dear (to); unloved (by); disliked (by)
2. enemy; foe; opposition; lit. unloved
3. unpleasant; disagreeable; offensive (to)

Built from

• a- — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation: the concrete sense 'without' applied here to the quality of being pleasant. Works like English un- and Greek a(n)-.
• appiya — stem · unpleasant, disagreeable
  Adjective stem derived from a- + √pry; inflected here to instrumental plural to show means or agency.
• -ehi — ending · instrumental plural
  Marks the plural instrumental case, showing the agents or means by which something acts or with which something is done.

Analysis. a- (not) + priya (pleasant, beloved) — literally 'not-pleasant'; the prefix a- negates the root √pry (to please, delight).

Etymology. From √pry 'to please, delight' (Sanskrit priyate, cognate with English free in the sense of 'favored, preferred'). The prefix a- (Sanskrit a-, Greek a(n)-) is the common Indo-European negator, as in English un- and Greek a-theist. Appiya thus means 'unpleasing, disagreeable', often used in the canon to denote things that provoke aversion (dosa) in Buddhist psychology.

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

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