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tapode

tapoda

nt acc pl of tapoda (noun); nt loc sg of tapoda (noun); masc acc pl of tapoda (noun); masc loc sg of tapoda (noun)

1. hot spring; thermal spring; lit. hot water
2. name of monastery; lit. hot spring

Built from

• tapo — root · heat, ascetic heat
  From √tap 'to burn, heat'. The root's concrete sense—physical heat—extends to the internal heat of austerity and spiritual discipline (tapas).
• uda — root · water
  From √ud 'to wet'. Cognate with English 'wet' (Proto-Germanic *wat-) and Latin unda 'wave, water'; all descend from PIE *wed- 'to flow, wet'.

Analysis. tapo (heat, ascetic practice) + uda (water); literally 'hot water', a compound that became the name of a monastery.

Etymology. From tapo (< √tap 'to heat, burn') and uda (< √ud 'to wet', cognate with English 'wet', Latin unda 'wave'). The word fuses two Indo-European roots for heat and water into a single image of thermal springs, which in ancient India were places of ascetic practice and spiritual refuge.

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

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