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kasiyā

kasi

fem instr sg of kasi (noun); fem dat sg of kasi (noun); fem abl sg of kasi (noun); fem gen sg of kasi (noun); …

1. kasi (fem): farming; agriculture; lit. dragged
2. kasī (fem): ploughing; farming; agriculture; lit. dragging

Built from

• kas — root · drag, pull, cut
  The root sense of dragging or striking the earth with a plough. The concrete action of labour grounds the whole semantic field of agriculture.
• ī — ending · feminine singular stem
  Feminine nominal suffix (also -i); here forming an abstract noun of the action or state of ploughing from the root.
• yā — ending · instrumental singular
  Instrumental case ending for feminine singular nouns; marks the noun as the means or instrument by which the action is performed ('by farming').

Etymology. From the root √kas 'to drag, to pull'; the concrete image is of the plough dragged through earth. Cognate with Latin caesus 'cut' (from *kad-), Greek kázō 'split', and English hew — all from the Indo-European root *ked- meaning 'to strike, cut, drag'. The semantic shift from 'dragging' to 'ploughing' and thence to 'farming' reflects the tool and the labour.

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

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