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paricāreti

pr 3rd sg of paricāreti (verb)

1. enjoys oneself; amuses oneself; indulges (in); lit. causes to walk around
2. surrounds oneself; amuses oneself (with); lit. causes to walk around
3. serves (at); attends (on); waits (on); lit. causes to walk around

Built from

• pari — prefix · around, about
  Peri- sense: complete, all-encompassing motion. Used in pariññā 'full understanding' and pariccaga 'complete giving up'.
• car — root · walk, move, travel
  Sanskrit carati 'walks'; cognate with Latin currere 'run', English 'car'. Concrete image: locomotion through space, here applied to movement of attendance or pleasure.
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Sandwiched into the root in the form -ar- (guna vowel lengthening); reverses or extends the root's action.
• e — ending · 3rd singular present
  Present indicative active ending. Marks the speaker's description of what is happening now, as a general fact or repeated action.

Analysis. pari (around) + cāra (walking, movement) + -eti (3rd singular causative verb ending). Literally 'causes to walk around'; the sense of attendance and service derives from moving around someone in readiness or devotion, and the sense of enjoyment from moving about freely in pleasure.

Etymology. From pari 'around, all the way round' (Greek peri-, Latin peri-; completeness) + √car 'walk, move' (Sanskrit carati, English 'car' in the sense of motion, cognate with Latin currere 'run'). The causative -aya- (here -ār-) makes it 'cause to walk', hence 'attend upon' or 'conduct oneself around'.

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

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