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puñjakitāni

puñjakita

nt nom pl of puñjakita (adj); nt acc pl of puñjakita (adj); nt voc pl of puñjakita (adj)

1. heaped in a pile; lit. made into a heap

Built from

• puñja — root · heap, pile
  From √pucch-, 'to gather, pluck'. The concrete sense of collecting things together into one place underlies the noun 'heap'.
• kita — stem · made, done
  Past participle of √kar (to make, do). In this compound, it converts the noun into an adjective describing the state of being piled up.
• -ni — ending · neuter plural
  The nominative, accusative, and vocative plural ending -ni for neuter adjectives in Pali, marking the agreement of the adjective across these three cases in plural form.

Analysis. puñja (heap) + kita (made, done) — literally 'made into a heap', a past participle construction expressing the state of being heaped up.

Etymology. puñja is from √pucch- (to pluck, gather), cognate with Sanskrit puccha- and English 'pick' and 'pluck' (all from Proto-Indo-European *peuk-); kita is the past participle of √kar (to make, do), related to Sanskrit kṛta-, Greek *kratos (strength, power), and English 'create'. The compound shows how a concrete action of gathering and arranging becomes the adjective describing the resulting state.

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

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