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kammassa

kamma

nt dat sg of kamma (noun); nt gen sg of kamma (noun)

1. action; deed; doing
2. work; job; occupation
3. (vinaya) legal act; legal procedure; formal action
4. (gram) object of the verb
5. (gram) passive voice; lit. action
6. volitional action

Built from

• kar — root · make, do
  From Indo-European *ker- (to make, craft). The concrete image of making or doing something underlies all uses. Sanskrit √kṛ; Latin creare, English craft.
• -ma — ending · action, product
  Nominalized suffix forming neuter agent nouns. Marks the dative or genitive singular form with appropriate case/number inflection added.

Etymology. From √kar (Sanskrit √kṛ, "make, do"). The sense evolved from concrete making/doing to abstract action and deed. Cognates: English "craft", Latin "creare" (to make, create), Greek "kerannymi" (to mix, make). The noun kamma is the agent noun formation (kar- + -ma suffix), parallel to Sanskrit karma.

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

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