Dear friends,

festive greetings. Please help with the following questions.

1. Is 'cittagu' a bahubbiihi compound?

2. What part of speech is cittaa? PED has citta as a neuter noun,
meaning 'painting'. It also gives an example, citta-miga: the spotted
antelope. However, cittaa in the phrase seems to be a past participle:

cittaa gaavo yassa, so
were spotted / oxen / of whom / he
he, of whom the oxen were spotted

So, is 'citta' a past participle?

Thank you.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

59. Some words take a different form when they are compounded.

(ii) cittaa gaavo yassa, so = cittagu ([a person] who has spotted cows
and oxen)