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vaseyya

vasati

opt 3rd sg of vasati (verb)

1. lives; stays; resides (in)

Built from

• vas — root · dwell, settle
  The root itself carries the image of staying put, making a dwelling-place one's own. Related to Latin vastus and Greek auen.
• e — stem · thematic marker
  Thematic stem-formant linking the root to personal endings in present/imperfect and other tenses.
• yya — ending · 3rd sg optative
  Optative suffix marking potential or wished-for action ('he might dwell'), shaped from the older subjunctive morphology of Pali verb conjugation.

Etymology. From Indo-European √*u̯es- 'dwell, spend the night', cognate with Latin vastāre 'to lay waste' (from sense of overrunning a dwelling), Greek auen 'sleep', and English wise (in the sense of 'dwelling-place', as in clockwise). The root sits in the semantic field of settlement and habitual presence.

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

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