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gaccheyya

gacchati

opt 3rd sg of gacchati (verb)

1. gacchati (pr): goes; walks; moves; wanders around; travels
2. gacchati (pr): becomes; lit. goes
3. gaccheyya (opt): could go; would move; would walk

Built from

• gacch — root · go, move
  From √gam, meaning motion or going. Cognate with English 'come' and Latin 'venio'. The concrete sense of forward movement underlies all uses.
• e — ending · optative marker
  Marks the optative mood, expressing what could or would happen in a potential or conditional scenario.
• yya — ending · optative singular
  Secondary ending for 3rd person singular optative, completing the optative formation with potential or polite sense.

Etymology. Root √gam (Sanskrit gam-, going, motion) is cognate with English 'come' and Latin 'venio'. The optative suffix -eyya expresses potentiality and conditionality.

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

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