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saudrayāti

saudraya

adjective (nominative singular feminine -ī form, or adverbial -āti form)

1. advantageous; profitable; lit. with going up

Built from

• su — prefix · well, good
  The Indo-European word for "well" (Greek eu-, English well). Here it marks positive quality in compounds.
• ud — prefix · up, out
  Spatial prefix meaning upward and outward motion (English out, German aus). The concrete imagery of rising or ascending underlies the sense of prosperity.
• rā — root · go, move
  The root √rā appears in Sanskrit rāti "goes" and is cognate with Latin errāre "wander". In the compound, it carries the sense of forward motion upward.
• ya — ending · making adjective
  Nominal suffix forming adjectives from verbal roots and compounds, here creating the adjective base saudraya.
• āti — ending · adverbial marker
  The particle āti is added adverbially, emphasizing the manner or degree of the quality expressed by the adjective.

Analysis. saudraya + āti: the adjective saudraya ("with going up, ascending") used adverbially with the particle āti (emphatic/manner marker).

Etymology. saudraya compounds su- (well, good) + udraya, from ud- (up, out) + √rā (to go, move). The root √rā appears in Sanskrit rāti "goes"; cognate with Latin errāre "to wander" and English rare in the sense of "to roam". The prefix su- (well) combined with the spatial sense of ud- (upward motion) yields "going well upward", i.e. advantageous progress.

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

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