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odhuneyya

odhunāti

opt 3rd sg of odhunāti (verb)

1. shakes down

Built from

• o — prefix · down, away
  Form of ava- (down, downward, off). Spatial prefix that directs the action downward or away from the subject.
• dhun — root · shake, tremble
  √dhun; cognate with Sanskrit dhunoti and Greek donéō (to shake, agitate). The root carries the image of trembling or oscillating motion.
• ā — ending · present system
  The -ā- suffix marks the present indicative or optative stem formation in Pali verb conjugation.
• ti — ending · 3rd sg optative
  Third person singular optative ending; marks wish, possibility, or conditional mood in the present tense.

Analysis. o- (form of ava-, down) + dhunāti (shakes); the prefix reverses or redirects the motion of shaking downward or away.

Etymology. √dhun (shake, tremble) with ava- prefix (down, downward); cognate with Sanskrit dhunoti and Greek donéō (agitate). The prefix ava- (down, off) gives the sense of shaking downward or away.

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

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