Re: "vinaasamentu"?

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "ardavarz" <ardavarz@...> wrote:

>
> Hi, everybody!
>
> Could someone help me to interpret the word "vinaasamentu"? I think it
> should be a 3th person plural imperative of vinaaseti ("destroys"),
> but the suffix puzzles me. Maybe this is middle voice?
>
> With metta,
> Ardavarz
>

Hello Ardavarz.

eti = he goes
vinaasam eti = he goes to destruction, i.e. he is destroyed
vinaasam entu = let them go to destruction

Metta
James Whelan