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ekāsanabhojanañhi

ekāsanabhojana

nt; nominative/accusative singular + hi (emphatic particle)

1. eating in one sitting; (comm) eating up to seven times between dawn and noon

Built from

• eka — root · one
  From PIE *oino-. Concrete sense: the single, undivided unit.
• āsana — stem · seat, sitting place
  Derived from √ās 'sit' (English sit, Latin sedēre). Concrete sense: the physical place where one sits.
• bhojana — stem · eating, food
  Derived from √bhuj 'enjoy, eat'. The abstract sense of consuming derives from the concrete act of taking in.
• ñhi — ending · indeed (emphatic enclitic)
  The particle hi asserts the clause or adds emphasis; ñ is a euphonic elision preceding it. Marks logical or rhetorical weight.

Analysis. ekāsana (eka + āsana, 'one seat') + bhojana ('eating'), meaning eating all food taken while seated once, without rising; hi is the enclitic emphatic particle 'for, indeed'.

Etymology. eka- 'one' (from PIE *oino-; cognates: English one, Latin ūnus, Greek oinos 'wine'—originally 'unity'), āsana 'seat' from √ās 'sit' (cognates: English sit, German sitzen, Latin sedēre), bhojana 'eating' from √bhuj 'enjoy, eat' (cognates: Sanskrit bhuj, possibly related to English bog as 'to devour').

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

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