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vayo

vaya

masc nom sg of vaya (noun); masc nom sg of vayas (noun); masc acc sg of vayas (noun)

1. vaya (masc): disintegration; decay; disappearance; dissolution; vanishing; lit. going away
2. vaya (masc): loss; decline (of); lit. going away
3. vayas (masc): life; lifespan; lit. going away
4. vayas (masc): (of life) age; stage; period; lit. going away
5. vayas (masc): old age; (comm) youth; lit. going away

Built from

• vaya — root · going; departure
  The root √vay denotes motion, especially moving away. The nominalization captures the sense of transience, loss, and the passage of time — what goes, what departs, hence decay, age, lifespan.

Etymology. From √vay 'go, move, depart' (Sanskrit vay-), cognate with Latin vēhere 'to carry', Greek ἵεμαι (hiémai) 'to go'; the concrete sense of motion away yielded the abstractions of transience, dissolution, and temporal duration.

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

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