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jātiyā
jāti
fem instr sg of jāti (noun); fem dat sg of jāti (noun); fem abl sg of jāti (noun); fem gen sg of jāti (noun); …
- jāti (fem): birth; rebirth; conception
- jāti (fem): class; caste; social status; lit. birth
- jāti (fem): age; years; lit. birth
- jāti (fem): type; kind; category (of)
- jātiya (adj): of nature; of type; of class; of category; lit. of birth
Built from
- jā — root · be born, beget
From Indo-European *gen-, the root behind Latin gignō (beget), English kin and kind, and German Kind (child). The concrete image is coming forth into being.
- ti — ending · feminine abstract
This productive suffix forms feminine nouns of action, result, or quality from verb roots. In jāti it yields the abstract 'act of being born' and by extension 'birth, origin, class, kind'—what marks or defines something by its origin.
Etymology. From √jan- (to be born, to beget), cognate with Latin gignō, English kin, German Kind, and Sanskrit janman. The feminine form jāti derives from the root through the productive -ti- suffix forming feminine abstracts of action or state.