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sugati

fem nom sg of sugati (noun); fem voc sg of sugati (noun); nt nom sg of sugatī (adj); nt acc sg of sugatī (adj); …

1. sugati (fem): good destination; happy fate; state of happiness; lit. going well
2. sugatī (adj): righteous; good; just; fortunate; lit. who goes well

Built from

• su — prefix · well, good
  Marks excellence and ease. From PIE *su- (Greek εὖ eu-, Latin suāvis); the same root underlies English swear, sweet.
• gati — root · going, destination
  From √gam (go); gati is the feminine noun for the path traveled and the destination reached — rebirth-state (sugati: good realm; dugati: bad realm).

Etymology. su- (well, good) + gati (going, destination). su- is the Indo-European root *su- (cognate with Greek εὖ eu-, Latin suāvis sweet, English swear in the sense of confirm — all from PIE *swen- to resound, then to be agreeable). The prefix su- marks excellence and ease: sugata (well-gone) is an epithet of the Buddha. Here it qualifies gati, the destination or state reached by one's going — a core doctrinal term for the realms of rebirth.

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

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