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kasī

kasi

fem nom pl of kasi (noun); fem acc pl of kasi (noun); fem voc pl of kasi (noun); aor 3rd sg of kasi (verb); …

1. kasi (fem): farming; agriculture; lit. dragged
2. kasi (aor): ploughed, tilled; lit. dragged
3. kasī (fem): ploughing; farming; agriculture; lit. dragging

Built from

• kas — root · drag, pull
  The root expresses the concrete image of drawing or dragging; cognate with Latin cassus and Greek κάσος. In agriculture, the plough is dragged through earth.
• ī — ending · feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural (noun); 3rd sg aorist (verb)
  On the noun, marks feminine plural; on the verb, marks 3rd singular aorist action (simple past tense).

Etymology. From √kas 'to drag, pull' (cognate with Latin cassus 'empty, vain', Greek κάσος 'empty', suggesting the sense of 'drawn out' or 'drawn across the ground'). The noun kasi 'ploughing' preserves the concrete image of dragging the plough through soil; kasi as agriculture generalizes the sense to all field work.

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

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