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samannāgato

samannāgata

masc nom sg of samannāgata (pp)

1. possessing; endowed (with); having; lit. going together

Built from

• sam — prefix · together
  Things brought into one; works like Latin con-.
• anu — prefix · along, following
  Trailing after, following the track; cognate Greek ana- (in sense 'along, up through').
• ā — prefix · toward
  Reverses motion verbs, drawing toward the speaker or inward; no common European cognate.
• gam — root · go, come
  Cognate English 'come', Latin 'venio'. The root sense of movement becomes arrival and possession.
• ta — ending · past participle
  Past participle suffix marking a completed state; here expressing a habitual or permanent condition of possession.

Analysis. sam + anu + ā + √gam, 'gathered together along toward': a past participle expressing the cumulative sense of having come together with (something), hence 'possessing' or 'equipped with' in the canonical idiom of spiritual attainment (e.g., samannāgato sīlakkhandhena 'endowed with the aggregate of virtue').

Etymology. sam (together) + anu (along, following) + ā (toward) + √gam (go, come; cognate English 'come', Latin 'venio'); the prefix sequence compresses 'brought together along toward', a spatial image that became the abstract sense of inward possession or qualification.

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

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