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upasaṅkamissāmīti

upasaṅkamati

1st person singular future indicative; upasaṅkamissāmi + iti (reported speech)

1. approaches; goes (to); visits; lit. goes near

Built from

• upa — prefix · near, alongside
  Spatial approach: up close to someone or something. Works like Latin sub- and English up.
• saṅ — prefix · together, with
  Marks gathering or collecting oneself. The two prefixes together create 'drawing together near to'.
• kam — root · go, come
  Cognate with English come and German kommen; IE *gʰem-.
• issa — stem · future marker
  Future tense formant; -issa- makes the future stem from the root.
• mi — ending · 1st person singular
  Active voice, 1st person singular present/future; -mi is the Vedic thematic primary ending.
• ti — ending · quotative particle
  Marks reported thought or speech; here enclosing the utterance within iti.

Analysis. upasaṅkamissāmi-iti: future stem upasaṅkamissa- (I shall approach) + iti (quotative particle, 'thinking' or 'saying'), marking indirect speech or mental resolve.

Etymology. upa- (up close to, near, alongside; Latin sub-, Greek hypo-) + saṅ- (together, with; Latin con-) + √kam (go, come; cognate with English come, Greek bathos 'depth' via IE *gʰem-). The two prefixes stack concretely: drawing near and gathering oneself together to go toward.

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

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