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kakacena

kakaca

masc instr sg of kakaca (noun)

1. saw
2. in reference to Opammavagga, Vagga 3 of the Majjhima Nikāya (MN21-30); lit. saw

Built from

• kak — root · cut, saw
  The root √kak- denotes the action of cutting or sawing, with the concrete image of a blade dividing material. Cognate with Sanskrit kakṣ- and distantly with English hack.
• a — ending · masculine nominative singular stem-forming suffix
  The vowel -a forms the nominative singular stem of masculine nouns of the a-class and elsewhere serves as a thematic vowel in noun inflection.

Etymology. From √kak- (to cut, saw), cognate with Sanskrit kakṣ- (axis, axle; the cutting point), Greek kakē (badness, evil—originally the notion of harm or cutting), and distantly with English hack (to chop). The root expresses the action of sawing or cutting.

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

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