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labhitvā

absolutive of labhati

1. having obtained; having got

Built from

• labh — root · seize, take
  Concrete sense of grasping or seizing; cognate with Greek lambánō and Latin labāre. Generalizes to 'obtain' and 'receive'.
• i — stem · thematic vowel
  Marks the present stem of the a-conjugation verb labhati.
• tvā — ending · absolutive
  Marks the action as completed prior to the main verb; a temporal and modal participle expressing sequence.

Etymology. √labh 'to seize, take' is cognate with Latin labāre 'to totter, give way' and Greek λαμβάνω (lambánō) 'to take'; the root's concrete sense 'to grasp or seize with the hand' generalizes to 'obtain' or 'receive'. The absolutive -tvā forms a temporal participle marking the action as completed before the main verb.

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

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