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upadhayo

upadhi

masc nom pl of upadhi (noun); masc acc pl of upadhi (noun); masc voc pl of upadhi (noun)

1. attachment; taking as mine; appropriation; acquisition; sense of ownership; identification; lit. placing near
2. essential ground of existence, substrate of being; lit. placing near

Built from

• upa — prefix · near, up close to
  Spatial proximity that develops into possessive appropriation. Cognates: Greek hypo-, Latin sub-, English up.
• dhā — root · place, put
  To set down or position something. Cognates: Latin facere, Greek tithenai, English do.
• i — ending · masc nom/acc/voc pl
  Masculine nominative, accusative, or vocative plural ending; marks the word as the object or agent in the plural.

Analysis. upa- (up close to, near) + √dhā (place, put): 'placing near', the act of taking something as one's own, hence clinging and the conditions appropriated as self.

Etymology. upa- (prefix meaning 'near, up close to'; cognate with Greek hypo-, Latin sub-, English up) + √dhā (to place, put; cognate with Latin facere, Greek tithenai, English do). The spatial image of 'placing near oneself' became the psychological sense of 'taking as mine', and in doctrine, the five aggregates or other phenomena appropriated as 'I' and 'mine'.

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

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