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dhāreyyāsīti
dhāreti
3rd person singular optative; conditional form dhāreyyāsīti
- holds up; holds out; lit. carries
- carries; bears
- bears in mind; keeps in mind; remembers (something about); lit. carries
- owes (a debt) (to); lit. carries
- wears; dresses (in); lit. carries
- considers; accepts (something as); lit. carries
Built from
- dhāray- — root · hold, carry
From Proto-Indo-European *bher- (also Latin ferre, English bear, German gebären). The verb extends √dhṛ through -ay-; used concretely for holding/wearing and abstractly for remembering and sustaining views.
- -e — ending · present 3rd singular
Standard present-tense marker; here frozen in the optative stem formation.
- -yy- — ending · optative marker (doubled)
Characteristic Pali gemination in optative formation, marking the conditional/subjunctive mood (what might or should be).
- -ā — ending · optative stem
Long vowel showing the optative stem; carries the 'possibility' or 'desire' sense.
- -s — ending · conditional mood
Conditional suffix, marking 'would' or 'if [he] were to'; in narrative, often marks reported or hypothetical utterance.
- -ī — ending · 3rd singular
3rd singular ending in conditional mood.
- -ti — ending · quotative marker
The enclitic iti marks direct or reported speech; here frames the conditional utterance as something said or thought.
Analysis. dhāreyyāsi + iti: optative stem dhārey(y)ā- + conditional suffix -sī- + 3rd singular -ti, then iti (quotative/marking reported speech or emphasis)
Etymology. √dhṛ 'to hold, carry' (Sanskrit dhārayati, Latin ferre 'to carry', English bear; cognate with Greek pherein). The root's core image is physical bearing or holding; applied to memory ('bearing in mind'), obligation ('bearing a debt'), and acceptance ('bearing/supporting a view').