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gateti

gata

3rd person singular present indicative of gateti

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

• gate — stem · gone
  Past participle of gacchati (√gam 'go'), here used as the stem for causative derivation. The -ta ending marks completion.
• ti — ending · causative-present
  The -ti here is the causative suffix -e- (absorbed into gate) plus the 3rd singular present -ti, creating a transitive verb meaning 'causes to go' or 'leads'.

Analysis. gate (past participle of gacchati 'goes') + iti (quotative/factitive suffix): literally 'makes (it) gone', hence causes to go or leads. The iti suffix here functions as a causative formant, converting the adjectival past participle into a transitive verb.

Etymology. From √gam (go; cognate with Latin venīre 'come', Greek báinō 'step', English come) via gacchati. The causative formation with -eti follows the productive Pali pattern of deriving transitive verbs from roots or participles.

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

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