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vedanākkhandho

vedanākkhandha

masc nom sg of vedanākkhandha (noun)

1. aggregate of felt experience; mass of feeling; second of the five aggregates

Built from

• vedanā — root · feeling, sensation
  From Proto-Indo-European *weyd- 'to see'; cognate with English 'wit', Latin 'vidēre', Sanskrit 'vid-'. In Pali psychology, vedanā is the affective coloring (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral) that accompanies every moment of consciousness.
• kkhandha — root · aggregate, heap, mass
  From √khan- 'to dig'; the root image is a pile or heap of material. In Buddhist terminology, a khandha is one of five aggregates (pañcakkhandhā) that make up the person: rūpa, vedanā, saññā, saṅkhārā, viññāṇa.
• -o — ending · nominative singular masculine
  Nominative singular masculine ending -o marks the subject or standalone citation form of o-stem nouns in Pali.

Analysis. vedanā (feeling, sensation from √vid

Etymology. Compound of vedanā (sensation, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- 'to see', source of English 'wit', Latin 'vidēre', Sanskrit 'vid-') and kkhandha (aggregate, heap, from √khan- 'to dig', hence 'heap' of material). In Buddhist doctrine, vedanā denotes the second of the five aggregates (pañcakkhandhā), the dimension of sensory affect (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral) that arises with sense contact; it is the substrate of craving (taṇhā) and thus central to suffering (dukkha). The compound is a standard term of the Abhidhamma and Suttapiṭaka.

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

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