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nikkhepananti

nikkhepana

neuter nominative singular (in quoted/emphatic use with iti)

1. discarding; dropping; throwing down; casting off
2. eliminating; excreting; lit. throwing down

Built from

• nik — prefix · out, away
  Variant of nir- and nis-; carries the sense of expulsion and removal. Cognate with English nether (negation of place); used in nikkhipati (throws out) and nibbāna (the fire blown out).
• khip — root · throw, cast
  Sanskrit kṣip-, meaning to throw or hurl; related to Greek σκέπτομαι (dart, observe) and English skip, all conveying rapid outward motion.
• ana — ending · gerund, act of
  The gerundive suffix -ana nominalizes the verb, forming an abstract noun for the action itself; here it produces the neuter noun nikkhepana (the act of casting off).

Analysis. nikkhepanaṃ + iti: the neuter accusative nikkhepana (the act of discarding) followed by iti (thus, so), a quotative particle used here to frame the word emphatically or as a citation.

Etymology. nik + khip + ana: nik- (out, away, forward) is a variant of nir- and nis- (out of, away from); khip- is √khip (to throw, cast); -ana is the gerundive suffix (the action itself). The root √khip is akin to Sanskrit kṣip- (to throw, hurl), cognate with English skip and Greek σκέπτομαι (skeptomai, to observe, dart), both rooted in the sense of rapid outward motion. The prefix nik- embodies the imagery of casting or throwing something away and out.

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

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