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ayojjhanti

ayojjha

past participle (ptp) passive, nom. sg. masc.

1. ayojjha (ptp): unfightable; unconquerable; invincible; lit. not to be fought
2. ayojjhā (fem): name of a town; lit. not fightable

Built from

• a- — prefix · not, without
  Plain negation; no motion or directionality. Cognates: English un-, Greek a(n)-.
• yojjh- — root · be joined, be fought
  Passive potential stem of √yuj 'to join, yoke, fight'. Cognates: English 'yoke', Latin iungō, from PIE *yeug- 'to join'.
• -a — ending · nominative singular masculine
  Marks the word as nominative singular masculine participle, functioning as an adjective or agent noun describing the unfightable one.

Analysis. a- (not) + yojjha (to be fought, from √yuj 'to join, fight'); literally 'not to be joined/fought against'.

Etymology. The negative prefix a- (Sanskrit/PIE: un-, not) prefixes yojjha, the passive potential participle of yujjati ('fights, joins'; Sanskrit yujyate). The root √yuj ('to join, yoke') appears in English 'yoke' and Latin iungō ('join'), both from Proto-Indo-European *yeug-. In Pali, yojjha ('fightable') is the passive potential form; a- negates it to mean 'not fightable, invincible'.

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

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