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nisinne

nisinna

masc acc pl of nisinna (pp); nt acc pl of nisinna (pp); masc loc sg of nisinna (pp); nt loc sg of nisinna (pp); …

1. seated (in)
2. sitting; lit. seated

Built from

• ni — prefix · down, into
  Concrete sense of downward and inward motion; cognates: English nether, German nieder. Here: settling downward into a seated state.
• s(i)d — root · sit, settle
  Cognates: English sit, Latin sedeō, Sanskrit sad-. The root itself carries the sense of resting in one place through downward settling.
• na — ending · participial (past)
  Suffix forming past participles from verbal roots; marks completed action, here yielding the sense of 'seated' (having sat down).

Etymology. ni- (down, into) + √sad/sid (sit) + -na (participial suffix). The prefix ni- preserves its concrete sense of descent and inward motion: sitting represents a downward settling into a place. Related to English sit (Germanic root), Latin sedeō, and Sanskrit sad-. The imagery: motion downward into a seated position.

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

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