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gāviyā

gāvī

fem instr sg of gāvī (noun); fem dat sg of gāvī (noun); fem abl sg of gāvī (noun); fem gen sg of gāvī (noun); …

1. cow

Built from

• gāv- — root · cow
  An inherited Indo-European root found across Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Germanic languages, referring to bovine cattle. The concrete image is the domesticated ox, central to ancient pastoral societies.
• -ī — ending · feminine noun stem
  Feminine nominative singular marker. In Pali, -ī forms feminine nouns and here creates the feminine singular stem gāvī to which case endings attach.

Etymology. From Proto-Indo-European *gʷōu- 'cow'. Cognates: Sanskrit gau-, English cow, German Kuh, Latin bōs (from *gwos-), Greek βοῦς (bous). The Pali form shows regular sound changes from Indo-European: *gʷ- > g-, *-ōu- > ā-.

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

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