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vanasaṇḍo

vanasaṇḍa

masc nom sg of vanasaṇḍa (noun)

1. forest grove; thicket of trees

Built from

• vana — root · forest
  From √van 'to love, desire', extended to the place of desired greenery. Cognate with Sanskrit vana and Latin venus (desire).
• saṇḍa — root · cluster, group
  Likely a Dravidian loanword denoting an assembly or tightly grouped collection. Not confidently analyzed into Indo-European morphemes.

Analysis. vana (forest) + saṇḍa (cluster, group); a densely grouped stand of trees.

Etymology. vana from √van 'to desire, love' (hence 'place of greenery, beloved growth'), akin to Sanskrit vana and Latin venus 'desire'; saṇḍa from Dravidian roots meaning 'assembly, cluster', borrowed into Pali to denote a huddled group or company.

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

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