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samatikkamāya

samatikkama

masc dat sg of samatikkama (noun)

1. surpassing; overcoming (of); going beyond; transcendence

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, completely
  Brings completeness and integration to the action; related to Latin con- and English 'same'.
• ati — prefix · beyond, over
  Expresses excess and transcendence; the concrete sense of going past a mark becomes 'surpassing'.
• kam — root · go, move
  The same root as Sanskrit gacchati and Pali gacchati; appears in āgacchati 'comes' where ā- reverses the motion.
• a — ending · nominalizing suffix
  Converts the verbal sense into a masculine noun expressing the action or state of going beyond.

Analysis. sam- (together, completely) + ati- (beyond, over) + √kam (go) + -a (nominal suffix); literally 'going beyond completely', hence surpassing or transcendence of a state or condition.

Etymology. The prefix sam- (cognate with English 'same', Latin similis, Greek homo-) brings the sense of completeness to ati- (Greek eti 'still, besides', Latin et), which means 'over, beyond the mark'. The root kam (√gam, 'go') appears in āgacchati 'comes' and Sanskrit gacchati 'goes'. Together they express the idea of stepping beyond or transcending a boundary completely.

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

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