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uppannena

uppanna

masc instr sg of uppanna (pp); nt instr sg of uppanna (pp)

1. arisen; appeared; come into being (in); lit. gone up
2. born (in); lit. gone up (from)

Built from

• ud — prefix · up, out
  Spatial prefix marking upward or outward motion. Cognates: English 'out', German 'aus'.
• pad — root · fall, go
  Root of motion. In Sanskrit padati 'falls, goes'; combined with ud-, the sense is 'springs up'.
• na — ending · past participle
  Past participle suffix forming adjectives from verbal roots; here marking the state of having arisen.
• ena — ending · instr sg
  Instrumental singular ending (masc or nt), expressing agency, means, or cause in the sentence.

Etymology. ud- (up, out) + √pad (fall, go) → uppajjati (arises) → uppanna (arisen). Cognate with English 'up' and German 'auf'; the spatial image of rising or emerging becomes the abstract sense of coming into existence.

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

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