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vaṇijjāya

vaṇijjā

fem instr sg of vaṇijjā (noun); fem dat sg of vaṇijjā (noun); fem abl sg of vaṇijjā (noun); fem gen sg of vaṇijjā (noun); …

1. trade; trafficking; dealing (in)

Built from

• vaṇ — root · barter, traffic
  A commercial root meaning to deal in goods or trade; appears in vaṇik 'merchant' across Sanskrit and Pali.
• ijjā — ending · abstract noun suffix (feminine -ā)
  The suffix -ijjā (or -ijja-) forms abstract feminine nouns from roots, here creating 'the quality or activity of bartering' (trade). The feminine -ā ending marks the nominative singular of this abstract noun, and in this sentence the -ā also carries the instrumental, dative, ablative, or genitive case inflection.

Etymology. From √vaṇ 'to barter, deal in goods'. The -ijjā suffix creates an abstract noun from the root. Related to Sanskrit vaṇij 'merchant' and vaṇij-ā 'commerce'. The root has uncertain Indo-European cognates, though the semantic field (exchange, barter) aligns with roots for 'turn' and 'move' across languages.

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

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