Dear Nina,

the discussion of desiderative verbs completes in the next posting, to be followed by some exercises. I look forward to your participation and assistance. As the name 'desiderative' implies, these verbs are used to express a desire or wish.

I am not sure if reduplication is also used in other ways in Pali. At my current level, I probably won't pick it up if the reduplication isn't obvious, i.e. if complex morphing occurs. However, if we do come across such words in the suttas or other texts, I will highlight them for discussion.

I recall from my literature class in my senior secondary school years in Singapore. There was this discussion of reduplication, and such words, as I remember, usually evolve from the spoken language, and are also more common in the spoken language, e.g. mama, papa.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom wrote:

> 4) manA (to think) before sa is changed to viima.m (through
> miima.m). vii + ma.m + sa + ti = viima.msati, investigates.

N: Interesting. I had never thought of reduplication. It seems to intensify, just thinking is intensified to investigating.