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samuddatīre

samuddatīra

nt acc pl of samuddatīra (noun); nt loc sg of samuddatīra (noun)

1. sea shore; beach; coast; ocean shore

Built from

• sam — prefix · together
  Things brought into one; here the massed waters collected in one place, the sea.
• udda — root · water, wave
  Related to √ud 'flow, spring up'; cognate with English out, German aus from IE *ud-.
• tīra — stem · shore, bank
  The edge or boundary where water meets land.
• e — ending · acc pl / loc sg
  Neuter accusative plural or locative singular, depending on syntactic context.

Analysis. samuddatīre is samuddatīra (compound noun: samudda- 'ocean' + tīra 'shore') in acc pl or loc sg. Samudda itself is sam- 'together' + udda, an old form of water/wave (related to √ud 'to flow, spring up'), so samuddatīra literally means 'the gathering-of-waters shore'.

Etymology. Samudda: saṁ- (together) + udda (water, from √ud 'flow, spring out'). Cognates: English out, German aus (both from same IE *ud-). Tīra 'shore' is cognate with Sanskrit tīra and possibly English tier (land level/edge), though the Pali word may have a pre-IE substrate origin. The compound illustrates how spatial meaning (saṁ- bringing waters together) remains concrete in the noun.

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

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