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musāvādī

masc nom sg of musāvādī (adj); masc nom pl of musāvādī (adj); fem nom sg of musāvādī (adj); nt nom pl of musāvādī (adj); …

1. who lies; lying; speaking falsely

Built from

• musā — root · lie, falsehood
  Origin uncertain; possibly connected to Sanskrit mṛṣā 'false' but the regular phonetic correspondence is unclear. Used in the canon for deliberate deception and false speech, one of the five precepts (musāvāda-veramaṇī 'refraining from lying').
• vādī — stem · speaker, one who speaks
  Agent noun formed from √vac 'speak' (cognate with Latin vox, English voice) plus the agent suffix -in becoming -ī. Denotes the doer of the action in the stem form.

Analysis. musā (lie, falsehood) + vādī (one who speaks). A liar is one whose speech is falsehood.

Etymology. musā is of uncertain origin, possibly related to Sanskrit mṛṣā 'false, lie' (but the Pali form does not derive regularly from it); vādin is the agent noun from vac 'speak', cognate with Latin vox 'voice' and English voice. The compound fuses falsehood with the agent of speech.

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

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