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vutte

vutta

masc acc pl of vutta (pp); nt acc pl of vutta (pp); masc loc sg of vutta (pp); nt loc sg 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

• vut — root · speak, say
  From √vad (vacati in present), cognate with Latin vōx
• ta — ending · past participle
  The suffix -ta marks completed action across Indo-European: English -ed, Latin -tus, Greek -tós (cf. klassikós). Here it forms an adjective meaning 'having been said'.

Etymology. √vac/vad

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

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