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saññāsamuṭṭhānātissa

saññāsamuṭṭhāna

nominative singular masculine, or genitive singular (saññāsamuṭṭhānātissa with -issa, genitive singular masculine "of one arisen from perception")

1. arising from perception
2. originating in cognition
3. perception-based sensation or experience

Built from

• saññā — root · perception, cognition
  From sam- + jñā (know), the root jñā appears also in Sanskrit jñāna. Perception as a gathering-together of sense data into one apprehension.
• sam — prefix · together, completely
  The things collected into one unified percept. Same prefix as in samādhi and samatha.
• uṭṭh — root · rise, arise, spring up
  From ud- (up/out) + sthā (stand). Cognate with English stand, German stehen, Latin stare. The image is uprightness and emergence.
• āna — ending · abstract noun, condition of
  Masculine abstract noun suffix. Here it nominalizes "arising" into the condition or state of arising.
• iss — ending · genitive
  Genitive singular masculine -issa marks possession or origin: "of one/that arising from perception."
• a — ending · genitive
  Final -a part of the genitive singular suffix -issa when split as iss-a, or a metrically/phonetically accommodated form.

Analysis. saññā (perception) + samuṭṭhāna (arising, originating); samuṭṭhāna is sam- (together, completely) + uṭṭhāna (arising, from ud- up/out + sthā stand), so "what stands up together from perception." The form saññāsamuṭṭhānātissa is genitive: "of (pain/sensation) arisen from perception" — a technical term in the Pali canon describing one of the three roots of pain (dukkha, sukha, adukkha-asukkha) analyzed by type of origination.

Etymology. Saññā from sam- + jñā (to know), cognate with Latin cognoscere and English know, both involving assembly of facts into awareness. The prefix sam- conveys the gathering-together of sensory input into a unified cognition. Uṭṭhāna from ud- (up, out) + sthā (stand), cognate with English stand and Greek statos, conveying upright emergence.

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

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