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hatappahate

hatappahata

masc acc pl of hatappahata (noun); masc loc sg of hatappahata (noun)

1. violence; beating and killing

Built from

• hat- — root · strike, kill
  From √han; cognate with Latin caedō (kill, cut), English hew. The concrete image of a blow that kills or wounds.
• -a — ending · past participle
  Marks the adjective as a past participle, passive voice, agreeing with the noun it modifies in gender, number, and case.
• pahata — stem · beaten, struck
  Stem pahata- is the past participle of √pah (to beat, strike). Paired with hata to form a compound denoting violence as the union of beating and killing.
• -e — ending · loc sg / acc pl
  In locative singular, marks the location or circumstance; in accusative plural, marks the direct object, depending on syntax and context.

Analysis. hata (past participle of √han 'to strike, kill') + pahata (past participle of √pah 'to strike, beat') — a dvandva compound joining two verbal adjectives to denote the combined action of beating and killing, violence in its full destructive sense.

Etymology. Both roots belong to the Indo-European family of impact verbs: √han (to strike, kill) is cognate with Latin caedō 'to cut, kill' and English 'hew'; √pah (to beat, strike) is onomatopoetic, mimicking the sound of impact. The compounding of synonymous action-words to intensify meaning is characteristic of Pali idiom.

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

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