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manoviññāṇe

manoviññāṇa

nt acc pl of manoviññāṇa (noun); nt loc sg of manoviññāṇa (noun)

1. thinking and knowing; mind consciousness; mental awareness; sentience; lit. mind knowing

Built from

• mano — root · mind
  From IE *men- (think), cognate with English 'mind', Latin 'mens' 'mind', Greek 'menos' 'spirit, courage'. The faculty of thought and inner awareness.
• vi — prefix · apart, distinctly
  Prefix meaning 'asunder, in different directions'; here it intensifies the knowing as discrimination and recognition.
• ññā — root · know, recognize
  From √jñā (know, distinguish); the root itself reflects IE *gn- (know; cognate with English 'know', German 'kennen', Latin 'gnōscere').
• na — ending · abstract noun
  Nominalizing suffix; -na creates abstract nouns from verbal roots, here 'the knowing' = consciousness, awareness.

Analysis. mano (mind) + viññāṇa (knowing, consciousness); the knowing that pertains to the mind-faculty, as opposed to the five sensory consciousnesses. In the Abhidhamma, one of the six classes of consciousness, arising when the mind-door (manodvāra) is the sense base.

Etymology. mano- from Sanskrit manas, Indo-European *men- (think, mind; cognate with English 'mind', Latin 'mens', Greek 'menos'). viññāṇa from vi + √jñā (know distinctly, recognize), in the sense 'knowing apart, discrimination'.

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

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