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ukkujjeyya

ukkujjati

opt 3rd sg of ukkujjati (verb); opt 3rd sg of ukkujjeti (verb)

1. ukkujjati (pr): (of a bowl) uprights; turns face up; lit. turns up
2. ukkujjeti (pr): turns the right way up; lit. causes to turn up

Built from

• ud — prefix · up, out
  Assimilated to uk- before the root. Carries the concrete sense of upward motion and emergence.
• kujj — root · turn, bend
  Root meaning to turn or bend. Likely cognate with Sanskrit kuṭ- and possibly Indo-European *kel- (wheel, hill), both involving rotation or curvature.

Etymology. uk- (up, out) + √kujj- (to turn, bend). The prefix ud- (up, out) is here assimilated to uk- before the root. Related to Sanskrit ud-kuṭ- and Indo-European *kel- (to turn, bend), seen in English wheel, hill. The spatial sense of upward motion is preserved in the literal meaning of turning a bowl right-side up.

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

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