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vutto

vutta

masc nom sg of vutta (pp); masc nom sg of vutta (adj)

1. sown; scattered; planted
2. shaven
3. said; told; spoken; mentioned
4. called; named; said (to be)
5. spoken to
6. meant
7. with a livelihood (of); living off; as means of living

Built from

• vac — root · speak
  From Indo-European *wekʰ- 'speak, say'. Cognates: Latin vox (voice), English voice, German Wach (watch in the sense of utterance). The root develops into √vuc in the present tense vuccati, and vutta- in the past participle.
• uta — ending · past participle
  The -uta ending marks a past participle, passive in sense ('spoken' rather than 'he spoke'). This derives from an older -kta suffix in Sanskrit (ukta), which became -tta or -uta in Pali after labial roots such as vac-.

Etymology. From √vac (vac-, vac-) 'speak', cognate with Latin vox 'voice' and English voice. The past participle vutta represents the regular Pali transformation of Sanskrit ukta.

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

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