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idhāgamanāya

idhāgamana

nt dat sg of idhāgamana (noun)

1. coming here

Built from

• idha — root · here, this place
  Adverbial particle from PIE *id- (this). Marks location or immediate presence.
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Reverses the direction of √gam 'go': things coming toward the speaker rather than going away. Common in dynamic verbs of motion.
• gam — root · go, come
  Root denoting motion. Cognate with English 'come' and Sanskrit gacchati. In combination with ā-, it means 'come toward' or 'arrive'.
• ana — ending · gerund/noun agent
  Gerundial nominal suffix forming abstract nouns of action; here denoting the act or process of coming.
• āya — ending · dative singular
  Dative case ending marking the recipient, goal, or purpose of an action; here indicating the aim or destination.

Analysis. idha (here, in this place) + āgamana (coming, arrival); from ā-√gam 'coming toward the speaker'. The dative singular ending -āya marks the goal or destination of an action.

Etymology. idha is a locative adverb from Proto-Indo-European *id- (this, here); āgamana is a gerund form of āgacchati, from the prefix ā- (toward the speaker, reversing motion) + √gam (to go), cognate with English 'come' and Sanskrit gacchati. The concrete image is motion reversed—things coming toward you rather than going away.

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

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