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olokeyya

oloketi

opt 3rd sg of oloketi (verb)

1. looks; looks down (at); examines; checks

Built from

• o — prefix · down, downward
  Variant of ava-; the downward perspective implies scrutiny from above.
• lok — root · see, look
  Cognate with English 'look' and German 'Blick'; the root captures the act of visual perception.
• e — ending · optative mood
  Optative -e- in 3rd singular present, expressing a potential or wished-for action.
• yya — ending · gerundive suffix
  The -yya ending marks this as a gerundive form (what ought to be looked at), common in conditional and modal contexts.

Analysis. o + loketi, a prefix o- (variant of ava-, down) + √lok (see, look), giving 'looks down at' or 'examines from above'.

Etymology. o- (downward, from ava-) + √lok (to see, look; cognate with English 'look', German 'Blick'). The downward prefix gives the sense of examining something beneath one's gaze, hence 'looks down at' or 'inspects closely'.

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

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