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gacchanti

gacchati

pr 3rd pl of gacchati (verb)

1. goes; walks; moves; wanders around; travels
2. becomes; lit. goes

Built from

• gac — root · go, move
  From PIE *gʷem- 'to step, to go'. The root appears in many Indo-European languages with the sense of motion and arrival.
• cha — ending · 3rd plural present
  The -cha ending marks third person plural in the present indicative, formed from the present stem gaccha- + personal inflection.

Etymology. √gam 'to go', cognate with English 'come' (Old English cuman, from Proto-Germanic *kwem-), Latin 'venio' (from Proto-Italic *gwem-), and Greek 'bainō' (from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- 'to step, go'). The nasal infix -n- seen in Latin 'venio' does not appear in the Pali present stem, which shows instead the thematic vowel -a-.

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

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