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vuttā

vutta

masc nom pl of vutta (pp); fem nom sg of vutta (pp); fem nom pl of vutta (pp); nt nom pl of vutta (pp); …

1. sown; scattered; planted
2. shaven
3. said; told; spoken; mentioned
4. called; named; said (to be)
5. spoken to
6. thing said; what was stated
7. meant
8. poem; verse; stanza; lit. spoken
9. …

Built from

• vad — root · speak, say
  The concrete act of uttering words. Cognate with Latin vōx (voice) and English word; all descend from Indo-European *wekʷ-.
• ta — ending · past participle
  The suffix -ta marks the past participle, converting the verbal root into an adjectival form used attributively or predicatively; it is invariable in formation but inflects for gender and number as shown in the grammar.

Etymology. From √vad (speak, say), cognate with Latin vōx (voice), English word. The past participle stem vutta- derives from the root by the standard -ta suffix; Sanskrit vāg (speech) and English voice both descend from the same Indo-European *wekʷ- (speak, call).

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

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