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maññasi

maññati

pr 2nd sg of maññati (verb)

1. thinks; imagines; conceives; presumes; supposes
2. knows; is convinced; is sure
3. considers (to be); takes as; regards as; views as; deems as

Built from

• man — root · think, suppose
  From Indo-European *men- 'to think, remember'. Cognates: Latin meminī 'I remember', English mind, German meinen 'to mean'. In the canon, maññati is the mental act of conceiving views (diṭṭhi) and presuming the self (attānudiṭṭhi).
• ati — ending · 3rd person singular present
  The thematic vowel -a- and ending -ti mark the present indicative active; -si is 2nd singular, so this form is 2nd person singular present indicative.

Etymology. Root √man, 'to think' (Sanskrit manyate, Latin meminī 'I remember', English mind, German meinen 'to mean, intend'). The -ati ending marks present tense. Related to Indo-European *men- 'to think, remember'; the semantic shift from 'remember' (Latin) to 'think, suppose' (Pali) reflects the common development of cognition roots. No prefix complicates the form.

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

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