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samanumodiṁsūti

samanumodati

3rd person singular present indicative (or gerundial form samanumodiṁ with sūti unclear; likely a scribal variant or contracted form; resolving to samanumodati)

1. rejoices together with
2. participates in joy
3. shares in merit

Built from

• sam — prefix · together
  brings things into one; here, unites one's joy with another's.
• anu — prefix · along after
  expresses following the track of; here, joy that trails and follows the other's good.
• mod — root · rejoice
  from √mud; the concrete image is radiance or blooming.
• a — stem · thematic vowel
  marks the first conjugation class.
• ti — ending · 3rd person singular present
  marks indicative mood and third person subject in present tense.

Analysis. sam- (together) + anu- (along after, following) + modati (rejoices); the compound expresses sympathetic joy or participation in another's merit or good fortune.

Etymology. √mud "to rejoice" (related to Sanskrit mud-), prefixed by sam- "together" and anu- "along after"; the sense is that one's joy runs along with and together with another's, a key virtue in Buddhist ethics (mudita, sympathetic joy).

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

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