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sāyite

sāyita

masc acc pl of sāyita (pp); nt acc pl of sāyita (pp); masc loc sg of sāyita (pp); nt loc sg of sāyita (pp); …

1. tasted; savoured
2. tasting; savouring; lit. tasted

Built from

• sā — root · taste
  Root meaning to taste or experience by the senses; also to settle or become established. The gustatory sense is primary, the spatial sense (sitting, settling) is secondary.
• yita — ending · past participle
  The suffix -ita forms past participles; here attached to a root that has been vowel-lengthened (sā- from sad-) to create sāyita. This marks the action as completed in the past.

Etymology. From √sād (to taste, sit), an ancient root found in Sanskrit sāda-, sādya- (tasted, experienced). The form sāyita appears to show an irregular or dialectal past participle formation from this root. Sanskrit cognates include asādam 'tasteless' and sādaka 'tasting'; the root is related to Latin satiō (sitting, settlement) through the deeper sense of something becoming settled or established in the mouth.

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

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