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samaggakaraṇiṁ

samaggakaraṇa

accusative singular feminine of samaggakaraṇa (noun); appears as samaggakaraṇiṁ with anusvāra

1. promotion of unity
2. fostering of harmony
3. making agreement

Built from

• sam — prefix · together
  Brings things into one; from Indo-European *sem- (English same, Latin similis). Here it unifies agreement.
• agga — root · top, foremost
  Superlative of agu. Metaphorically, being "at the same top" means standing as one, hence unanimity.
• karaṇa — stem · action, making
  Derived from √kṛ (make, do). The -a ending marks the nominative stem; here inflected accusative to -iṁ. The suffix turns a root into an instrumental or result noun.

Analysis. samag(g)a (together, harmonious, unified) + karaṇa (act of making, action). From sam- (together) + agga (top, highest point, foremost), yielding the idea of unanimity or unity; karaṇa denotes the action or instrument of bringing this about.

Etymology. sam- + agga (< *sam-ag- "all together at the fore") + -karaṇa (from √kṛ "make"). The prefix sam- (English "same", Latin con-) combines things into unity. Agga is superlative ("highest, topmost"); here unified at one highest point, hence "unanimous". The -karaṇa suffix denotes action or the means of action, as in causatives and instrumental nouns.

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

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