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gacchāmīti

gacchati

1st person singular present indicative; quoted form with iti

1. goes; walks; moves; wanders around; travels
2. becomes; lit. goes

Built from

• gacch — root · go, walk
  The present stem of √gam. Common across Indo-European: Latin venio, Greek bainō, Sanskrit gacch-.
• ā — prefix · toward speaker
  Here absorbed into the stem gacchāmi (1st person). The prefix ā- reverses motion verbs, making √gam into an approach (implied in 'comes' as well as 'goes').
• mi — ending · 1st person singular present
  Primary active ending marking the speaker as the subject in present time.
• iti — ending · quotation marker
  Frozen demonstrative 'thus, so'; marks the preceding clause as reported speech or quoted utterance.

Analysis. gacchāmi (1st sg. pres. ind. of gacchati) + iti (quotation marker 'thus, saying'); a quoted utterance or reported speech.

Etymology. √gam 'to go' (with present stem gacch-). Cognate with Sanskrit gacchati, Latin venio 'come' (from *gwem-), Greek bainō 'step, walk' (from *gwa-); the root *gem-/*gwem- is widely attested in Indo-European languages for motion on foot.

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

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