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kiṇitvā

absolutive of kiṇati

1. having bought; having purchased

Built from

• kiṇ — root · buy, barter
  The root denotes the act of exchange or purchase. No secure cognates in major Indo-European languages.
• i — stem · present stem marker
  The thematic vowel -i- marks this as a causative or denominative stem formation.
• tvā — ending · absolutive
  The absolutive ending -tvā marks a completed action prior to the main verb, here 'having bought'.

Etymology. √kiṇ (to buy, barter) has no certain Indo-European cognate; the root belongs to an older stratum of Pali vocabulary, possibly connected to trade-language borrowing from Dravidian or non-Indo-European substrates. The sense 'to buy' is fundamental to the root.

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

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