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gata

masc acc pl of gata (pp); nt acc pl of gata (pp); masc loc sg of gata (pp); nt loc sg of gata (pp); …

1. gone (to); went (for)
2. become (a certain way); being in (some state); gone into (a state)
3. related to; referring to; kind of; type of; of a sort
4. going; walking; lit. gone
5. walked; travelled
6. passed

Built from

• ga — root · go
  From PIE *gʰem-. The root appears in gacchati 'goes', gameti 'goes'. Concrete sense of forward motion, used abstractly for 'arrive at' and 'become' (having gone into a state).
• ta — ending · past participle
  Forms passive and stative past participles from roots. Here marks the completed action 'having gone', hence 'gone' or 'arrived at'.

Etymology. √gam 'go', from Proto-Indo-European *gʰem- 'step, go'. Cognates: English come, German kommen, Latin venire. The past participle gata preserves the root in its oldest form; related to Sanskrit gata.

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

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