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passeyya

passati

opt 3rd sg of passati (verb); masc voc sg of passeyya (ptp); nt voc sg of passeyya (ptp)

1. passati (pr): sees
2. passati (pr): understands; gets; lit. sees
3. passati (pr): finds; encounters; meets with; lit. sees
4. passati (pr): looks at; observes; examines; inspects; lit. sees
5. passeyya (opt): could see; would see
6. passeyya (ptp): could be seen; visible; lit. to be seen

Built from

• pas — root · see, perceive
  The root sense is seeing as opening outward to what appears. Cognate with Latin patēre (to be visible) and Greek phanai (to appear); the concrete image is the eye's openness to light and form.
• ya — ending · optative
  The optative suffix -ya marks potential or wish; here 3rd singular, expressing what could or would happen — 'he might see' or 'one would see'.

Etymology. From √pas (to see, perceive), cognate with Latin patēre (to lie open, be visible — the root sense of seeing as the eye's opening to what lies before it) and English pane (a sheet of glass through which one sees). The root is ancient, appearing across Indo-European languages in the sense of sight and openness.

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

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