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gatiyo

gati

fem nom pl of gati (noun); fem acc pl of gati (noun); fem voc pl of gati (noun); fem nom pl of gati (adj); …

1. going; passing on
2. path; course; destination; destiny
3. range; course; extent; reach
4. future destination; future existence
5. way of going; gait; mode of movement
6. (of memory) retention
7. going; proceeding; with movement

Built from

• gat — root · go, move
  From √gam, the fundamental verb of motion in Indo-European. The present stem gacch- and the past participle gata (gone) show the root's full paradigm.
• i — ending · feminine plural nominative/accusative/vocative
  This ending marks feminine nouns in the plural, functioning here in three cases (nominative as agent or topic, accusative as object, vocative in address).

Etymology. From √gam (to go), cognate with English come, Latin venio (I come), Greek βαίνω bainō (I go, walk). The root appears across Indo-European languages with the sense of motion and arrival. In Pali compounds, gati often indicates a realm or mode of existence: duggati (bad destination, an evil realm), sugati (good destination, a happy realm).

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

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