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gāmī

masc nom sg of gāmī (adj); masc nom pl of gāmī (adj); fem nom sg of gāmī (adj); nt nom pl of gāmī (adj); …

1. leading; going; heading (to)
2. going; moving; who goes
3. motivated; moved; driven (by); lit. going

Built from

• g — root · go
  The root gam- appears in gacchati 'goes', gati 'going'. Cognate with Latin venio 'come', English come (from PIE *gʰem- 'to go'). Concrete image: forward motion.
• ā — prefix · toward
  Reverses direction or completes the action—here absorbed into the root as gā-.
• mī — ending · agent participle
  Nominalizing suffix forming an agent noun or participle, one who performs the action. Marks nominative singular/plural agreement.

Etymology. From √gam 'go' (Skt. gacchati, English come, Latin venio 'come'). The suffix -mī is an agent participle formation. Semantically: one who goes, hence motivated by or driven toward.

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

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