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chindanto

chindanta

masc nom sg of chindanta (prp); masc nom pl of chindanta (prp); masc voc pl of chindanta (prp); nt voc pl of chindanta (prp)

1. cutting off; amputating
2. breaking; removing; destroying; lit. cutting

Built from

• chind — root · cut, sever
  An old Indo-European root (*skey-) meaning 'to cut or split'. Appears in Latin caedere 'cut, hew' and Sanskrit छिद् (chid-).
• a — stem · thematic vowel
  The thematic vowel of the root, making chidá- the verbal stem before present-participle inflection.
• nta — ending · present participle
  The present active participle ending (-nt-a), marking ongoing action. In this form it is nominative singular masculine (or plural/vocative), agreeing with an agent performing the action of cutting.

Etymology. From √chid 'cut, sever' — cognate with Latin caedere (cīs-ōr 'cutter'), Greek khdos (perhaps), and English 'hew'. The root is ancient Indo-European *skey- 'to cut, whittle', which also appears in Sanskrit छिद् (chid-) and Greek σχίζειν (schízein) 'split'. The present participle form shows the vivid, ongoing action of cutting or severing, commonly used in the Canon to describe the destruction of craving and ignorance.

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

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