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cakkhusotaviññeyyā

cakkhusotaviññeyya

masc nom pl of cakkhusotaviññeyya (adj); fem nom sg of cakkhusotaviññeyya (adj); fem nom pl of cakkhusotaviññeyya (adj); nt nom pl of cakkhusotaviññeyya (adj); …

1. visible and audible; lit. to be known by the eye and ear

Built from

• cakkhu — root · eye
  PIE *okw- 'eye'. The concrete sense of sight as a perceiving faculty becomes here a metaphor for direct knowledge.
• sota — root · ear
  PIE *srew- 'to flow, hear'. Originally the organ through which sound flows; used for auditory knowledge.
• vi — prefix · apart, distinctly
  vi- marks clarity and distinction (as in vipassanā 'insight'). Here it intensifies the sense of knowing.
• ññ — root · know
  √jñā 'to know' (Sanskrit jñāti, English know). The root in its nasal-infix form.
• eyya — ending · to be (gerundive)
  Future passive participle (-eyya, -ya): marks obligation, capability, or fitness. Here 'fit to be known, knowable'.

Analysis. Compound: cakkhu (eye) + sota (ear) + viññeyya (to be known). The first two members denote the two primary sense-faculties; viññeyya is the gerundive (future passive participle) of viññāti, 'to know', and renders the whole compound as 'to be known by eye and ear'—i.e. knowable through sensory perception.

Etymology. cakkhu < PIE *okw- 'eye' (Sanskrit cakṣus, Latin oculus, English eye); sota < PIE *srew- 'to flow, hear' (Sanskrit śrotra 'ear', Greek rhoe 'flow'); viññeyya from √jñā 'to know' (Sanskrit jñāti, English know, Greek gnōsis). The gerundive ending -eyya marks obligation or future capability.

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

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