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katvā

absolutive (gerundive)

1. having done
2. having made

Built from

• ka — root · do, make
  The root √kar appears in both Pali and Sanskrit (kṛ); it connects distantly to Greek poiein and Latin creare. The concrete sense is 'to craft or fashion'.
• tvā — ending · absolutive
  The suffix -tvā marks the absolutive mood, an uninflected participle expressing a completed action. It transforms the root into a gerundive form used to express temporal or causal sequence.

Etymology. √kar (or kṛ in Sanskrit), 'to do, make'. Cognate with Sanskrit kṛ, Greek poiein 'to make' (poem, onomatopoeia), Latin creare 'to create'. The form katvā is the Pali absolutive (indeclinable participle formed from the past participle stem) used in dependent clauses to show an action completed before the main verb.

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

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