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attato

atta

masc abl sg of atta (adj); nt abl sg of atta (noun); masc abl sg of atta (pp); nt abl sg of atta (pp)

1. atta (adj): personal; related to oneself
2. atta (nt): taking up; accepting; seizing; grasping; lit. taken
3. atta (pp): taken up; accepted; seized; grasped
4. atta (nt): (gram) the negative prefix a; lit. na state
5. attato (ind): as oneself; as self

Built from

• atta — root · self
  The reflexive pronoun and noun, from PIE *at-ta-, the same root as Sanskrit ātman-, Greek autos (self), and Latin ipse (self). In the Pali canon, attā is the self—the target of non-self (anattā) doctrine.
• to — ending · as, like
  Adverbial suffix forming an uninflected adverb from nominal stems. Here it renders the ablative/instrumental case-meaning 'in the manner of, as, like' without further inflection.

Analysis. atta + to: the instrumental/ablative form atta (self) with the adverbial suffix -to (functioning as -tā in some contexts), forming an uninflected adverb meaning 'in the manner of self' or 'as oneself'.

Etymology. atta descends from Proto-Indo-European *at-ta-, the reflexive stem 'self'; compare Skt ātman-, Greek autos (αὐτός) 'self', and Latin ipse 'self'. The suffix -to (-tā) marks the adverbial or instrumental sense.

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

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