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kupito

kupita

masc nom sg of kupita (pp)

1. indignant; angry; annoyed; outraged; offended; lit. shaken

Built from

• ku — prefix · bad, wrong
  Negative intensifier indicating something gone awry or difficult. Related to Greek dys- (dysfunction).
• pit — root · swell, agitate
  The concrete image of swelling or turbulent motion. Cognate with English puff, suggesting puffing up with anger or disturbance of the mind.
• a — ending · past participle marker
  Forms the past participle in agreement with masculine nominative singular kupita, 'one who has been shaken/angered'.

Etymology. From ku- (bad, wrong) + √pi (to swell, agitate). The literal image is of anger as a swelling or turbulence of mind — being shaken up. Sanskrit kupita; cognate with English puff, German Puff (a push or blow), from Indo-European *peu- 'to swell, blow'. The prefix ku- (bad, hard, gone wrong) colors the root's neutral sense of physical agitation into emotional disturbance.

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

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