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kamati

pr 3rd sg of kamati (verb)

1. goes; travels; flies (by)
2. goes (into); enters (into); penetrates; has an effect (on)
3. occurs; happens; goes on; takes place; lit. goes

Built from

• kam — root · move, go
  The bare root meaning motion or travel. Appears in Sanskrit cam-, Greek kamnoō (to labour), and the Indo-European base of English come.
• a — ending · 3rd sg present
  The thematic vowel and personal ending -ti mark 3rd person singular present indicative in the a-conjugation (thematic present).

Etymology. From the root √kam (to move, go). Cognate with Sanskrit cam- (to move), Greek κάμνω kamnoō (to work, labour, suffer — the sense shifted from motion to exertion), and English come (through a different pathway of the same Indo-European root *h₂em- meaning motion and arrival). The root preserves the concrete image of moving or going from place to place.

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

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