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udabbahīti

udabbahi

3rd singular aorist active of udabbahati

1. pulled out; uprooted; eradicated; lit. carried up

Built from

• ud — prefix · up, out
  Upward and outward extraction. Cognate with English 'out', German 'aus'.
• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Intensifies the motion toward the agent; becomes elided before the following consonant cluster.
• bhara — root · carry, bear
  Cognate with Sanskrit bhara-, Greek pherein, Latin ferre, English 'bear', German 'bären'. The concrete sense of physical carrying underlies the meaning of removal.
• ī — ending · 3rd singular aorist active
  Third person singular aorist marker; bbahi (with gemination from sandhi) + ī marks completed past action of a single agent.

Analysis. ud + a + bbahi (iti is an enclitic particle meaning 'thus'); ud- (up, out) + ā- (toward) + √bhara (carry, bear) with elision of ā before b → ud + abbahi. The prefix ud- suggests upward extraction, and ā- intensifies the motion toward the agent.

Etymology. √bhara 'carry, bear' is cognate with Sanskrit bhara-, Greek pherein (Latin ferre, English bear, German bären). The prefix ud- ('up, out') is from Indo-European *ud-; cognate with English 'out' and German 'aus'. The combination ud + ā + √bhara literally means 'carry up and away', hence 'pull out, uproot'.

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

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