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atikkamaṁ

atikkamati

accusative singular masculine of atikkama (gerund/indeclinable participle), the surface form atikkamaṁ shows the nominative-accusative form in prose context

1. transgression
2. going beyond
3. exceeding

Built from

• ati — prefix · over, beyond
  Spatial excess, intensification. Cognate Greek eti.
• kam — root · go, move
  To proceed; literally 'going' made excess by the prefix.
• a — ending · gerund/masculine nominative
  Marks the verbal noun or indeclinable action noun; ṁ is the nominative-accusative masculine form.

Analysis. ati (over, beyond) + kamati (goes) — literally 'goes beyond the mark', applied to moral boundary-crossing and exceeding limits

Etymology. ati- (beyond, excess; cognate Greek eti 'still, besides') + √kam (to go, move). The prefix ati- keeps its spatial sense of 'past the mark' in this ethical application.

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

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