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olīyanti

olīyati

pr 3rd pl of olīyati (verb)

1. gets stuck; lags behind; gets bogged down; grinds to a halt; lit. is stuck down

Built from

• o — prefix · down; stuck
  Likely a reduced form of ava- or au- (downward, off), conveying the concrete image of sinking or adhering downward.
• lī — root · stick, adhere, cling
  Sanskrit lī- (as in līyate 'sticks, adheres'); the root image is the physical clinging or sticking of one thing to another.
• yati — ending · 3rd singular present
  The present indicative ending -yati (or here in plural -yanti) marks this as present tense, 3rd person plural; the y- infix appears after roots ending in vowels.

Etymology. Likely from o- (variant or allomorph) + lī-, related to √lī 'to stick, adhere, cling' (Sanskrit lī-, as in līyate 'sticks, adheres'). The prefix o- may represent a reduced form of ava- 'down' or au- 'off', suggesting the image of sinking down or sticking down into place. The sense evolved from the physical image of something becoming mired or adhered to a surface.

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

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