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accayena
accaya
masc instr sg of accaya (noun); masc instr sg of accaya (adj); nt instr sg of accaya (adj)
- accaya (masc): (of a person) passing away; death (of); lit. going beyond
- accaya (masc): (of time) passing; passage; lapse (of); lit. going beyond
- accaya (masc): fault; offence; transgression; lit. going beyond
- accaya (adj): escaping; overcoming; getting past; lit. going beyond
- accayena (ind): after the passing; after the lapse (of); lit. with the passing beyond of
- accayena (ind): after the death; after the passing (of); lit. with the passing beyond of
Built from
- ati — prefix · beyond, past
Excess and transgression: the concrete image of going past a boundary. Latin et (and), Greek eti (still, besides).
- aya — ending · agent or result
Nominalizing suffix forming feminine action nouns from verbal roots; later reanalyzed as masculine in Pali. The -aya is cognate with Latin -ia (gloria from gloris).
- ena — ending · instrumental
Marks the instrumental singular; used postpositionally with ablative to express temporal relations ("by/through the passing of" → "after the passing of").
Analysis. acc- + aya (ati-√i
Etymology. From ati- (beyond, past the mark) + √i/√ay (go). The prefix ati- conveys excess and transgression; √i means "go" (cognates: Latin ire, English itinerant). The noun accaya thus preserves the spatial image of "going beyond" — moving past a point, whether in time (a moment passes), in conduct (a fault is transgressed), or in life (death arrives). In temporal contexts, the instrumental form accayena functions as a postposition meaning "after the passing of."