janapadesu

janapada

masc loc pl of janapada (noun)

country; province; land; area; location

Built from

jana — root · people, folk
From √jan (beget, be born). Concretely those born into a community; cognate with Latin genus, gignō.
pada — root · place, ground, foot
From √pad (go, step, fall). The concrete ground one stands on; cognate with English foot, Latin pes, Greek pous.

Analysis. Compound of jana (people) and pada (place, foot, ground): literally 'the place of people', used for inhabited territory, a region or country as distinct from uninhabited wilderness.

Etymology. From jana (people, folk; from √jan 'beget, be born') and pada (place, foot, ground; from √pad 'go, step'), both ultimately from Indo-European roots: √jan cognate with Latin gignō 'beget' and genus 'race'; √pad cognate with English foot, Latin pes, Greek pous.

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

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