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kicce

kicca

masc acc pl of kicca (ptp); nt acc pl of kicca (ptp); masc loc sg of kicca (ptp); nt loc sg of kicca (ptp); …

1. obligation; duty; work (for); lit. to be done
2. should be done; ought to be made (by); lit. to be done
3. function; lit. to be done
4. something to be done; lit. to be done
5. (gram) primary derivative; affix added to roots to form potential participles; e.g. -anīya, -tabba, etc.; lit. to be done
6. with obligations; having duties; with work; lit. to be done

Built from

• ki — root · do, make
  Sanskrit kṛ; cognate with Latin creare "create", English care. The spatial root sense (grasping, handling, bringing about) underlies all volitional action.
• cca — ending · to be done
  Past participle suffix -ya- (here -cca by phonetic change), forming a potential or obligatory sense: something that requires doing or should be done.

Etymology. From √kṛ (to do, make): Sanskrit kārya "to be done, work, duty"; cognate with English "care" (originally "charge, responsibility") and Latin "cura" "care, concern". The sense evolved from "that which is to be done" to "duty" and "function". The past participle suffix -ya- forms potential adjectives ("to be done") which then nouned as "something to be done, work, duty".

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

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