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udapādiṁ

udapādeti

3rd person singular aorist active indicative of udapādeti (resolved from udapādiṁ, which is a Sandhi contraction)

1. arose, sprang up
2. came into being
3. appeared

Built from

• ud — prefix · up, out
  Indicates upward and outward motion, emergence. Cognates: English 'out', German 'aus'.
• a — prefix · directional marker
  Directional reversal particle joining ud to the root.
• pad — root · step, fall
  To step or tread; causative sense 'to cause to step forth'. Cognates: Sanskrit pad-, Latin pes, English 'foot'.
• e — stem · causative marker
  Causative suffix forming pādeti from √pad.
• ti — ending · 3rd singular aorist
  Active aorist ending denoting completed action in past time; contraction of -iṁ in Sandhi.

Analysis. uda- (ud + a, up and out) + pādeti (causative of √pad, to step/fall); lit. 'caused to step forth upward'

Etymology. ud- 'up, out' (English 'out'; German 'aus') + √pad 'to step, fall' (Sanskrit pad-, Latin pes 'foot', English 'foot'). The causative pādeti expresses the bursting forth or arising of phenomena in the canon.

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

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