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kīḷitajātaṁ

kīḷitajāta

accusative singular neuter of kīḷitajāta (adjective or past participle used attributively)

1. born from play or sport
2. produced playfully
3. arising as a joke or jest

Built from

• kīḷ — root · play, sport
  verbal root expressing playful movement and enjoyment; no certain Indo-European cognate.
• ita — ending · past participle
  indicates completed action; forms adjectives describing a state resulting from the verb.
• jā — root · be born, become
  fundamental root for coming-into-being; cognate with Latin gnascor, English kin.
• ta — ending · past participle
  participial ending marking perfective aspect; here compound-medial, forming an adjective meaning 'born/arisen'.

Analysis. kīḷita (past participle of kīḷati, 'plays, sports') + jāta (past participle of jāyati, 'is born, becomes'); the compound means 'born from playing' or 'come into being playfully', emphasizing something that arose as an amusement rather than seriously.

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

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