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cakkhumatā

cakkhumant

masc instr sg of cakkhumant (adj); nt instr sg of cakkhumant (adj); masc abl sg of cakkhumant (adj); nt abl sg of cakkhumant (adj); …

1. with eyes; who can see; who has vision; gifted with sight; lit. having eyes quality
2. person with sight; who can see; lit. having eyes quality
3. person with supernatural sight; who has extraordinary vision; lit. having eyes quality

Built from

• cakkhu — root · eye
  From IE *h₃ok-, seen in Greek ópsis, Latin oculus. The basic sense is the organ of sight; in canonical usage often metaphorical for wisdom and insight (as in pañña-cakkhu 'eye of wisdom').
• -mant — ending · possessing, endowed with
  Adjectival suffix attached to nouns to form adjectives meaning 'having' or 'characterized by'; here marks the nominative stem cakkhumant in the instrumental singular form cakkhumatā.

Analysis. cakkhu (eye) + -mant (possessing, endowed with); literally 'eye-possessing'

Etymology. cakkhu from Sanskrit cakṣus (eye), cognate with Greek ὄψις (ópsis 'vision') and Latin oculus (eye), all from Indo-European *h₃ok- (see); -mant is an adjectival suffix meaning 'endowed with', cognate with English -ment and Sanskrit -mant (cf. Latin -ment-), expressing possession of a quality.

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

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