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vaṅkeyyāni

vaṅkeyya

nt nom pl of vaṅkeyya (noun); nt acc pl of vaṅkeyya (noun); nt voc pl of vaṅkeyya (noun)

1. fraud; deception; dishonesty

Built from

• vaṅk — root · bend, crook
  Concrete sense: twisted or crooked motion. Extended to moral crookedness, dishonesty, and fraud.
• e — stem · connecting vowel
  Links root to suffix.
• yya — ending · gerundive (fit to be, worthy of)
  Marks a thing as fit, worthy, or suitable for the action of the root; here, 'things fit to be done in a crooked way', i.e., fraudulent deeds.

Etymology. From √vaṅk (to crook, bend) + -eyya (gerundive suffix denoting fitness or necessity). The root sense is 'crookedness' or 'bent dealings', hence dishonest conduct. Cognate with English 'wink' (originally to turn aside, bend) and German 'wanken' (to waver, bend), all from the Indo-European root *wenk- (to bend, turn).

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

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