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cavati

pr 3rd sg of cavati (verb)

1. moves; shifts; falls away (from)
2. passes away; dies

Etymology. cava + ti; from √cu 'shift, fall away, die'; Sanskrit cyavate [cyu]

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

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