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puggale

puggala

masc acc pl of puggala (noun); masc loc sg of puggala (noun)

1. person; individual
2. type of person; type of individual

Built from

• puggal — root · person
  From Sanskrit puruṣa. The concrete image is 'one who stands forth or advances'; cognate with Latin prōra (prow) and the PIE root meaning 'to go forward, be strong'.
• a — ending · masculine singular nominative stem
  The -a ending marks the masculine singular nominative stem form, from which other cases are built (hence acc pl -e, loc sg -e here from secondary endings).

Etymology. From Sanskrit puruṣa (man, person), itself from PIE *pṛ- (to go forward, be strong), cognate with Latin prōra (prow, front of a ship) and English prow. The shift puruṣa > puggala shows regular Pali sound changes (r > gg before a, u > u). The root sense is 'one who stands forth' or 'goes forward'.

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

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