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karotha

karoti

pr 2nd pl of karoti (verb); imp 2nd pl of karoti (verb)

1. does; acts; performs
2. makes
3. builds; constructs

Built from

• kar — root · make, do
  Concrete sense of fashioning or shaping; becomes abstract in meaning. Cognates: Latin creare, English craft.
• o — stem · thematic vowel
  Class 1 thematic present stem formation.
• tha — ending · 2nd pl. present/imperative
  Combined second person plural marker (-th-) and present/imperative marker (-a). Marks the verb form as addressing a plural audience (you all do/make).

Etymology. √kar- (make, do) is cognate with Latin creare (create), Greek kerannynai (mix, blend), and English craft, all from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (to make, create). The root appears across Indic languages: Sanskrit karoti, Pali karoti. The sense ranges from the concrete (fashioning an object) to the abstract (performing an action, doing a deed).

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

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