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samādāyeva

samādāya

gerund with emphatic particle eva

1. taking along; taking away; lit. taking together
2. undertaking; taking up; accepting; lit. taking together

Built from

• sam — prefix · together
  Brings things into one; cognate with English 'same' and Greek homo-.
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Reverses motion verbs; here it turns √dā from giving outward into taking inward. No common European cognate.
• dā — root · give, place
  The concrete image is placing or putting. Cognate with Sanskrit dāti and English 'do' (originally 'to place').
• ya — ending · gerund marker
  Forms the gerund (absolutive), marking a completed action prior to the main verb's action.
• eva — prefix · indeed, just
  An emphatic particle that underscores immediacy or emphasis; not a morpheme but a separate postposition modifying the gerund phrase.

Analysis. samādāya (gerund of samādadāti, 'takes together') + eva (emphatic particle 'indeed, just'); the gerund marks the action as completed before the main verb, and eva underscores the immediacy or decisiveness of that action.

Etymology. saṁ + ā + √dā: 'placing together toward'. The root √dā (give, place) appears in Sanskrit dāti and English 'do' in the sense of 'put in place'. The prefix saṁ (together, like Latin con-) brings things into unity; ā (toward the speaker) reverses the direction of simple giving into a taking-up or assumption. The compound samādāya ('taking together') is the gerund form, used adverbially to mark a prior action.

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

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