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uddhumāyikāti

uddhumāyikā

feminine noun, nominative singular with iti (quotation particle)

1. Indian bullfrog; Hoplobatrachus tigerinus; lit. blowing up; puffing up

Built from

• ud — prefix · up, out
  Intensifying directional prefix: things that move upward and outward. Cognate with English 'out', German 'aus'.
• dhum — root · blow, puff, inflate
  To blow or emit air forcefully. Cognate with Sanskrit dhmāti, and distantly with English 'fume' and 'thump'—all tracing to an IE root meaning 'to blow or swell'.
• āyikā — ending · feminine agentive/action noun
  Feminine diminutive or action-noun suffix that creates nominals, often denoting creatures or characteristic actions. Here it forms a feminine noun from the verbal root sense.
• iti — ending · thus, so-called (quotation particle)
  Quotation or naming particle that closes the noun phrase, here marking uddhumāyikā as a designation or name.

Analysis. uddhumāyikā (feminine noun, 'bullfrog') + iti (quotation/naming particle 'thus, so-called'). The word itself is a derivative feminine form built on uddhumāyika, which denotes the creature or the action of swelling.

Etymology. ud + √dhum 'to blow up', with the feminine action noun suffix -āyikā. √dhum is cognate with Sanskrit dhmāti 'smokes, blows', ultimately from the same Indo-European root as English 'fume' and 'thump'. The prefix ud- (up, out) intensifies the root's sense of inflating or puffing outward—the bullfrog's characteristic behavior when threatened.

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

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