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rudantānaṁ

rudati

genitive plural masculine of rudant-, present participle of rudati (3rd person singular present indicative: 'cries, weeps')

1. weeps
2. cries
3. laments

Built from

• rud — root · cry, weep
  The root denotes audible lamentation and emotional outburst; related to Latin rudis and the general Indo-European words for loud sound.
• a — stem · thematic vowel
  The thematic class marker, found in a-verbs (first conjugation).
• nt — ending · present participle
  The suffix -nt- forms the active present participle, corresponding to Sanskrit -ant-.
• ā — ending · genitive plural
  The long ā marks genitive plural in the masculine consonant-stem declension of participles.

Etymology. √rud 'to cry out, weep': cognate with Latin rudis 'rough, crude' (originally 'making a loud sound'), and distantly with English 'roar'. The root expresses the concrete sound and emotion of weeping.

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

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