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hareyyuṁ

harati

3rd person plural optative (conditional) of harati

1. (they) might carry
2. (they) might take away
3. (they) might steal

Built from

• har — root · carry, take
  A strong root meaning to grasp or carry away, with concrete sense of physical seizure or transport.
• e — ending · optative stem
  The optative stem marker in Pali, forming the conditional or potential mood.
• yy — ending · 3rd plural
  A variant of the regular 3rd person plural ending -u, used here with the optative to indicate multiple agents in a potential or conditional sense.
• uṁ — ending · final nasal
  Anusvāra (nasal resonant) appearing at the end of the word, typical of pausa form before consonants or at clause boundary.

Etymology. From the Indo-European root *ĝher- 'to grasp, seize', cognate with English 'gear' and Greek χαίρω (chairō) 'to make room for, yield'. The root preserves the sense of active taking or removal.

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

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