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pariyādāya

gerund of pariyādāti

1. wearing away; deteriorating; exhausting; lit. taking all around
2. obsessing; overpowering; occupying; controlling; lit. taking all around

Built from

• pari — prefix · around, all round
  Completeness and circularity; Greek peri- (perimeter, periphery) cognate.
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Direction toward the speaker; reverses the direction of motion verbs like dā.
• dā — root · put, place, give
  Cognate with Latin dare (to give) and English do; Sanskrit √dā.
• ya — ending · gerund suffix
  Marks the gerundive form, expressing the action as a noun or simultaneous action: 'taking around' → the wearing away or occupation that results.

Analysis. pari + ādāya: pari- (around, all round) + ādāya (taking, from √ā-dā

Etymology. pari- + ā- + √dā: the prefix pari- (Gk. peri- 'around') + ā- (toward, reversing motion) + √dā (to put, place; cognate with Latin dare, English do). The concrete sense 'taking all around' (occupying completely) becomes 'wearing away' through the imagery of exhaustion by surrounding force.

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

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