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vuttanti
vutta
past participle, nominative plural neuter (vuttanti = vuttaṃ + iti)
- sown; scattered; planted
- shaven
- said; told; spoken; mentioned
- called; named; said (to be)
- spoken to
- thing said; what was stated
- meant
- poem; verse; stanza; lit. spoken
- …
Built from
- vac — root · speak, say
From PIE *wek-. The root is evident in cognates like English voice, Latin vox, Sanskrit vāc, and Greek ops (utterance). The fundamental meaning is 'utter, articulate'.
- ta — ending · past participle
Forms the past participle, marking a completed action. Here agreeing with nominative plural neuter antecedent in vuttanti.
- ṃ — ending · accusative singular neuter
In vuttaṃ alone; in the compound vuttanti becomes nominative plural.
- iti — prefix · thus, so, quote particle
An enclitic particle that frames reported speech or assertions. Here it attaches to vuttaṃ to form the phrase meaning 'said thus' or introducing a reported statement, with nominative plural concord in vuttanti.
Analysis. vuttaṃ + iti: 'said + thus/so' — the neuter past participle vuttaṃ (accusative singular) followed by the enclitic particle iti, which frames direct or reported speech; vuttanti is the nominative plural form used predicatively to mean 'they say' or introducing what was said.
Etymology. √vac (speak, say) with past participle suffix -ta; cognate with English 'voice', Latin vox, Sanskrit vāc, Greek ὄψ (ōps, 'utterance')—all from PIE *wek- (speak). The prefix is absent here; vac- is the root in its simplest form.