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duggate

duggata

masc acc pl of duggata (adj); nt acc pl of duggata (adj); masc loc sg of duggata (adj); nt loc sg of duggata (adj); …

1. faring badly; poor; miserable; suffering; unfortunate

Built from

• du(r) — prefix · bad, gone wrong
  Prefix expressing badness or malfunction. Cognate with Greek dys-. The r disappears before g.
• gata — stem · gone, arrived
  Past participle of √gam (gacchati 'goes'). Expressed the completion of motion—hence 'fared,' 'went to,' 'arrived at.' Cognate with Latin gadere, English 'go.'
• -e — ending · locative singular
  In masculine and neuter, -e marks locative singular (or accusative plural in some inflections here). Locative 'in' or 'among' the bad destination.

Etymology. du(r)- (prefix: bad, gone wrong; cognate with Greek dys-, as in dysfunction) + gata (past participle of gacchati 'goes'; Sanskrit gata). The concrete sense is 'having gone badly' or 'in a bad destination'; used in the canon for rebirth in lower realms (dugati) and the suffering of those states.

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

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