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udakassa

udaka

nt dat sg of udaka (noun); nt gen sg of udaka (noun); masc dat sg of udaka (adj); nt dat sg of udaka (adj); …

1. water
2. living in water; related to water
3. juice; drink
4. name of the Buddha's second teacher; Udaka Rāmaputta

Built from

• udaka — root · water
  From PIE *wed- 'water'. A primary word for water found across Indo-European languages, including English water and Latin unda. No prefix or productive derivational morpheme; the word is an ancient stem.

Etymology. From Indo-European *wed- 'water', cognate with English water, German Wasser, Latin unda, and Sanskrit udaka. The root appears unchanged in Pali, showing the ancient status of this word across Indo-European languages.

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

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