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bhāseyyuṁ
bhāsati
3rd person plural optative active of bhāsati (bhāseyyuṁ is a contraction of bhāseyyu + ṁ final)
- speak
- say
- utter
- declare
Built from
- bhā — root · speak; shine
The root carries the primary image of brightness and utterance coming forth. It may derive from an Indo-European root related to "shining forth."
- s — stem · present stem marker
Forms the present-system stem bhāsa-, used for imperfect, present, optative, and imperative tenses.
- eyyu — ending · 3rd plural optative
The optative mood expresses potential, wish, or condition. The 3rd plural form indicates an action the speaker wishes or imagines would happen to multiple persons or things ("they would speak, they should speak").
- ṁ — ending · final anusvāra
The nasal final ṁ (anusvāra) attaches to the optative form as a contraction or euphonic variant in Pali manuscript tradition.
Etymology. Root √bhās "to shine, speak" (the concrete image is brightness of speech emerging into the open); cognate with Sanskrit bhāṣate, and distantly related to English "base" (in the sense of foundation or ground from which speech arises), though the connection is not certain. The sense develops from "shine" to "speak" as something that comes into the light.