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gaccheyyaṁ

gacchati

1st person singular optative of gacchati (from √gam-, 'to go')

1. I would go
2. I might go
3. let me go

Built from

• gacch- — stem · go
  The stem of gacchati; √gam with present formant -cha-.
• -eyya — ending · optative
  Optative morpheme marking potential or wish; here with 1st person singular -ṁ following.
• -ṁ — ending · 1st singular
  Nominative enclitic 1st person singular pronoun, marking the subject.

Etymology. √gam- (to go, walk, move): cognate with English 'come' (from earlier *gw-), Latin 'venio', Greek 'βαίνω' (bainō). The optative mood expresses potential, wish, or permission.

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

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