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maggoti

magga

masculine nominative singular with -ti enclitic particle (= maggo + iti)

1. magga (masc): road; path; track; way
2. magga (masc): way; means; method
3. magga (masc): coat; layering; lit. way
4. magga (masc): inlet; outlet; pipe; lit. way
5. magga (masc): series; sequence; group; lit. way
6. magga (masc): passage; lit. way
7. maggi (aor): sought; searched for; looked for
8. magga (adj): with a road; with a path
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• magga — root · path, way
  From √marg- 'to go, tread'; the trodden track as the concrete spatial image that becomes 'way of practice' in doctrine. Cognates: English march, Sanskrit mārga.

Analysis. maggo (magga in nominative singular, with -o ending) + iti (enclitic 'thus, so'); magga functions here as the subject, iti marks it as a quotation or naming particle, 'the path thus' or 'path (as it is called)'.

Etymology. Root √marg- (Sanskrit mārga) meaning 'to go, track, trail'; cognate with English 'march' (from Latin marcāre, walking). The noun magga is the agent noun 'that which is trodden' or 'a way made by going'; the sense of 'path' is the concrete ground-image underlying the Buddhist metaphorical uses (path of practice, the Eightfold Path as magga).

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

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