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cavamāne

cavamāna

masc acc pl of cavamāna (prp); nt acc pl of cavamāna (prp); masc loc sg of cavamāna (prp); nt loc sg of cavamāna (prp); …

1. falling away; dying

Built from

• ca — root · move, shake
  The root √cu (or ca in some contexts) means to move, shake, or hollow out. Cognate with Latin cavus (hollow) and English cave; the concrete image is of something becoming empty or falling away.
• v — stem · stem vowel
  The v is the weak-grade stem form of √cu before the participial suffix.
• māna — ending · present participle
  The suffix -māna marks present participles in middle voice or deponent verbs, indicating ongoing or progressive action ("in the process of"). Here it shows the action of falling away as it occurs.

Analysis. cava + māna: from √cu "to move, shake", with the present participle suffix -māna, "in the process of falling away".

Etymology. √cu is cognate with Latin "cavus" (hollow, empty) and English "cave" — the root captures the sense of emptying or hollowing out; here extended to falling away or crumbling. The present participle -māna (from √man- "to think, intend") marks ongoing action.

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

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