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sakyaputto

sakyaputta

masc nom sg of sakyaputta (noun)

1. young Sakyan; lit. Sakyan son
2. Buddhist monk; Buddhist; lit. son of the Sakyan

Built from

• sakya — root · Sakyan
  The Sakyan clan of the Buddha's birth; the root is a proper name (ethnonym) with no Indo-European cognate.
• putta — stem · son
  From √pad (to fall, to beget), cognate with Latin putus (boy) and Sanskrit putra. Originally meant 'fallen' or 'offspring', the concrete image of a child born from the parent.

Analysis. Compound: sakya (the Sakyan people/clan) + putta (son). In Buddhist usage, a standard epithet for monks and the Buddha himself, as members of the Sakyan dispensation.

Etymology. Sakya is the name of the north-Indian clan into which the Buddha was born; putta (son) derives from puttha-, the past participle of √pad (fall, beget), cognate with Latin putus and Sanskrit putra. The compound became a doctrinal term for any follower of the Sakyan teaching.

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

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