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vāyogataṁ

vāyogata

accusative singular neuter of vāyogata (adjective or past participle)

1. pertaining to the wind-element
2. entered into wind
3. wind-produced

Built from

• vāyo — root · wind
  The wind-element (vāyodhātu), one of the four great elements; from PIE *h₂weh₂- 'to blow'. Cognates: English weather, German wehen.
• gata — root · gone, entered
  Past participle of √gam 'go'; here used predicatively in compound to mean 'entered into, pertaining to'. Cognates: Latin venio (cf. English come, German kommen are unrelated; but Latin venio < *gwem-).
• ṁ — ending · accusative singular
  Marks the accusative case, neuter gender, singular number; the -ṁ ending (from older -am) follows neuter stems ending in -a.

Analysis. vāyo (wind-element, < vāta) + gata (gone into, entered); compound formed with the element classifier vāyo and past participle gata 'gone'

Etymology. vāyo is from Sanskrit vāyu 'wind', itself from Indo-European *h₂weh₂- (to blow, wave), cognate with English weather and German wehen 'to blow'. The prefix vāyo- (wind-) is typical of Buddhist physical classification (pañcamahābhūta compounds). gata is the past participle of gacchati 'goes', from the root √gam.

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

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