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nikkhipeyyuṁ

nikkhipati

3rd person plural optative (potential mood) of nikkhipati; the form nikkhipeyyuṁ shows sandhi contraction (-eyy- + -uṁ)

1. lay down, deposit
2. put aside, relinquish
3. dismiss, abandon

Built from

• nis — prefix · out, away
  The prefix nis- marks motion away or removal. From its concrete sense of 'out of', it generalizes to separation and abandonment.
• khip — root · throw
  The root √khip means to throw or cast. The image of throwing governs all meanings: to throw something away is to deposit it, set it aside, or abandon it.
• e — ending · optative
  The marker -e- signals the optative (potential or subjunctive mood), expressing what might or should happen.
• yyu — ending · plural optative
  The suffix -yyu- is the 3rd person plural optative ending, indicating multiple agents and potential action.

Analysis. nis- (out of, away from) + khipati (throws); literally 'throws away', hence to deposit, set aside, or abandon.

Etymology. The prefix nis- (out of, away from) + √khip (throw). The root √khip is cognate with Sanskrit kṣipati and ultimately with Greek skhedios (hasty, sudden). The concrete image of throwing away underlies the range from 'depositing' to 'abandoning'.

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

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