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sukhena

sukha

masc instr sg of sukha (adj); nt instr sg of sukha (adj); nt instr sg of sukha (noun)

1. sukha (adj): easy (on); comfortable (for); pleasant (for); good (for); contented
2. sukha (nt): ease; comfort; happiness; pleasure; contentment
3. sukha (adj): (of water) tepid
4. sukhena (nt): with ease; by comfort; with happiness
5. sukhena (ind): easily; comfortably; pleasantly; happily
6. sukha (adj): (of weather) fine; mild; pleasant
7. sukha (adj): happy

Built from

• su- — prefix · well, good
  Indo-European *sṷ- 'good'; cognate with Greek eu- (eulogy) and Sanskrit su-. The sense of 'well' and 'good' derives from the notion of smoothness and freedom from obstruction.
• kha — root · cavity, opening, space
  From *kh- 'to split, open'. In sukha the root carries the concrete sense of open, unobstructed space—hence ease and comfort emerge when space is available and free.

Etymology. su- 'well, good' + kha 'cavity, opening' (lit. 'having good space'). The word originally denoted physical ease and openness; cognate with Sanskrit sukha, from Indo-European *sṷ- 'good' (English 'swoon', Greek eu-), and kha from *kh- 'to split, open' (no direct European cognate, but the imagery of openness and unobstructedness persists in the Pali philosophical sense of ease as absence of constraint).

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

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