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sabyañjanaṁ

sabyañjana

adjective, accusative singular neuter (sabyañjanaṁ); from sa- + byañjana

1. with consonants
2. having consonants (of speech)
3. articulate

Built from

• sa- — prefix · with, having
  The emphatic copular prefix meaning 'together with' or 'furnished with'. Cognate with Latin sunt and Sanskrit sa-.
• byañjana — stem · consonant, articulation
  From √bhañj, meaning to break or mark. A consonant literally 'breaks' or articulates the flow of sound; used in phonetics and grammar to denote consonantal letters or markers of articulation.

Analysis. sa- (with) + byañjana (consonant, articulation); contrasts with abandoning phonetic markers, describing speech that includes consonantal sounds as opposed to vowels alone or whispered sound.

Etymology. byañjana derives from √bhañj (to break, mark, manifest); sabyañjana thus means 'furnished with articulation marks'. The prefix sa- (with, having) is the emphatic form of the copula, cognate with Latin sunt and Greek eon.

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

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