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chindeyya

chindati

opt 3rd sg of chindati (verb)

1. cuts off; severs
2. cuts up; slices up
3. (of a tree) cuts down; fells (something at)
4. destroys
5. cuts across; breasts; fords
6. breaks into; burgles; lit. cuts

Built from

• chind — root · cut, sever
  The root √chid (cut, split, separate) carries concrete spatial imagery of sundering. Cognates with Latin scindere, Sanskrit chidati.
• e — ending · optative mood
  The optative ending -e marks the 3rd person singular optative, expressing wish, possibility, or command in conditional contexts.
• yya — ending · optative 3rd sg
  The suffix -yya is a variant optative ending in Pali, marking 3rd person singular optative mood.

Etymology. From √chid (to cut), from Proto-Indo-European *skhid- (to split, separate). Cognates: Sanskrit cchidati, Latin scindere (to split, cut), English shide (archaic, to separate). The root carries the concrete sense of sundering or splitting apart, which extends metaphorically to destroying or severing connections.

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

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