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dinnena

dinna

masc instr sg of dinna (pp); nt instr sg of dinna (pp); nt instr sg of dinna (noun)

1. given; offered (to)
2. offering; gift (to); lit. what is given
3. paid; outlaid; expended; lit. given

Built from

• din — root · give, place
  From PIE √*deh₃ (to give, put), visible in Latin dare, Greek dídōmi, English donation. The concrete sense of placing something into another's hands underlies all meanings.
• na — ending · past participle
  Forms the past participle, marking the action as completed. In instrumental (dinnena), it functions as an ablative-instrumental: by/with the thing given.

Etymology. Past participle of dinoti/dapati (to give), from PIE √*deh₃ (to give, put), cognate with Latin dōnum (gift), dare (to give), Greek dídōmi (to give), English donation, dose. The root *deh₃ originally meant the concrete act of placing or bestowing; the past participle dinna grammaticalizes this as an object or means (instrumental: by means of giving).

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

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