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duruttassa

durutta

masc dat sg of durutta (adj); nt dat sg of durutta (adj); masc gen sg of durutta (adj); nt gen sg of durutta (adj); …

1. rudely spoken; impolite
2. bad speech

Built from

• dur- — prefix · bad, wrong
  The sense of 'gone wrong' or 'hard' originally spatial (down, awry) extends to moral and cognitive failure. Cognate with Greek dys-.
• utta — stem · spoken
  Past participle of √vac (to speak), from PIE *wek-. Cognate with Latin vox, English voice. Denotes completed action: 'that which has been uttered.'
• ssa — ending · dative/genitive
  Combined dative and genitive singular ending (-ssa) on adjectives; marks the person or thing to or for whom the quality applies, or of whom it is predicated.

Analysis. dur- (prefix: bad, wrong) + utta (past participle of vac-, to speak): 'badly spoken'; the nominalized adjective takes dative and genitive endings to mark the person or thing characterized by rude speech.

Etymology. du(r)- is cognate with Greek dys- (as in dysfunction, dystopia); utta is the past participle of the root √vac (to speak), which derives from the Proto-Indo-European *wek- (to speak, utter), cognate with Latin vox (voice) and English voice. The concrete sense of du(r)- as 'going wrong, hard, bad' transferred into moral and social domains: speech that goes wrong is rude or improper.

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

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