Dear Dmytro and friends,

thanks. It's interesting -eyya.m is also active 1st/sg optative. In
the last chapter of An Elementary Pali Course, -eyya.m is passive.
That's what that confused me. Ven. Narada's only list -eyyaami as
active 1st/sg optative.

I did check out Duroiselle's for the passive voice, and he has a
similar list. Now, I check again for the active voice, and found out -
eyya.m is present tense reflective (or "middle") voice 1st/sg.

Thanks again, the webpage you provide is useful.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko wrote:

> I am in the process of preparing the next section of Buddheniyaa
Vatthu, and I am stuck with the word vandeyya.m, which I understand,
with limited knowledge, as the passive 1st person singular optative
of vandati, meaning "I should be honored".

Why do you think it's passive? -eyya.m is an ordinary active 1 sg.
optative. http://dhamma.ru/in/palisufi.htm

> yannuunaaha.m tattha gantvaa bhagavato jayamahaabodhi.m
vandeyyan'ti cintetvaa

Thinking: "What if I will go and honour ..."