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kathenti

katheti

pr 3rd pl of katheti (verb)

1. speaks; tells; talks
2. (of a question) answers

Built from

• kath — root · speak, tell
  The verbal root expressing utterance and narration. Found in Sanskrit kathayati with the same sense.
• e — stem · present stem
  The thematic vowel -e- marks the present indicative active stem for verbs of this class.
• nti — ending · 3rd plural active
  The ending -nti signals third person plural in the present indicative active voice.

Etymology. From √kath, 'to speak' or 'to recount'; the root is related to Sanskrit kathayati 'narrates, tells'. The sense is fundamental to Indo-European: compare Greek legein 'to say' and Latin dicere 'to speak', though kath is its own distinct root in the Pali tradition with no certain European cognate.

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

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