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pivaṁ

pivati

3rd person singular present indicative active (pivaṁ is the gerund/infinitive stem form)

1. drinks
2. swallows
3. imbibes

Built from

• pi — root · drink
  Cognate with Latin bibere, English beverage, Sanskrit pibati. The root sense of consuming liquid by mouth.
• va — stem · present stem
  The -a- infix marks the present tense class; -v- is a present-system marker in this conjugation.

Etymology. Root √pi, cognate with Latin bibere (drink) and English beverage. The root appears in Sanskrit pibati. The gerund stem pivaṁ shows the characteristic -a- infix of the present system.

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

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