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kilamato

kilamanta

masc dat sg of kilamanta (prp); nt dat sg of kilamanta (prp); masc gen sg of kilamanta (prp); nt gen sg of kilamanta (prp)

1. becoming weary; growing tired (from)
2. wearing down; oppressing

Built from

• kil — root · tire, wear down
  Concrete sense of wearing away or rubbing fibers; generalizes to fatigue and weariness. Cognate with Sanskrit kśilati.
• -anta — ending · becoming, being (present participle)
  Present participle marker forming agent-like or state-descriptive participles. The dative and genitive singular endings follow the -a stem of the participle.

Analysis. √kil (to be weary, tire) + -anta (present participle ending). The present participle expresses the agent or state of becoming weary.

Etymology. √kil is cognate with Sanskrit kśilati (to tire, wear out) and possibly with Greek κνάπτω knaptō (to card wool, wear down fibers). The root carries the concrete sense of wearing away or being worn down, which generalizes to the abstract sense of becoming tired or fatigued. The -anta ending belongs to the present participle formation (agent-like or state-like participle), inherited from Indo-European.

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

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