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khuddake

khuddaka

masc acc pl of khuddaka (adj); nt acc pl of khuddaka (adj); masc loc sg of khuddaka (adj); nt loc sg of khuddaka (adj); …

1. small; minute; tiny
2. honey made by a kind of small bees

Built from

• khud — root · cut, break
  Underlying sense: to sever or make small through breaking. This concrete cutting action becomes the abstract notion of diminutiveness.
• -aka — ending · diminutive
  Suffix forming diminutive adjectives, marking the noun as small or reduced in size or importance.

Etymology. Root √khud (to cut, break) with diminutive suffix -aka. The sense of smallness derives from the notion of something broken or cut down. Cognate with Sanskrit khuḍ- (to bend, break); distantly related to Greek κόπτω (kóptō, to cut) and English chop.

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

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