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saṁvaḍḍhāni

saṁvaḍḍhati

1st person singular present indicative of saṁvaḍḍhati (corrected from saṁvaḍḍhāni); causative form

1. I increase, grow, or cause to grow
2. I nourish or develop

Built from

• saṁ — prefix · together, completely
  Brings things into one; intensifies the verb. Works like Latin con- (congregate, convene).
• vaḍḍh — root · grow, increase
  Cognate with Sanskrit vardhati, from Indo-European *werdh-. Concrete sense of expansion and flourishing.
• a — stem · present stem marker
  Forms the present stem vaḍḍha- from the root.
• mi — ending · 1st person singular present
  The ending -mi marks first person singular in the present indicative active voice.

Analysis. saṁ + vaḍḍhati; the prefix saṁ (together, completely) combines with vaḍḍhati (to grow or increase), yielding the sense of cumulative growth or development brought to completion.

Etymology. vaḍḍhati is cognate with Sanskrit vardhati (to grow, increase), from the Indo-European root *werdh- (to grow, turn); the causative force here reflects Pali's productive causative formations. The prefix saṁ reflects Indo-European *sem- (together, same), seen also in English same and Latin similis.

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

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