Re: Pali Endings table by Kogen Mizuno

Hi Jim,

Seems like Kogen Mizuno's dictionary is available in Japanese at:

http://dhamma.sutta.org/pali-course/Pali-Chinese-English%20Dictionary.html
http://dictionary.sutta.org/about
https://github.com/siongui/data/tree/master/dictionary

Kogen MIZUNO "Parigo Jiten (Pali-Japanese Dictionary)", Tokyo, Shunjyuusha, May 1968.

There's also:

Kogen MIZUNO "Parigo Bunpo (Pali Grammar)", Sankibo,Tokyo,1955.

The table obviously gives little regard to formal grammar, however it proves to be amazingly useful for beginners.

Understanding affixes is essential for those who delve deeper into Pāli grammar. Currently I participate in the creation of Pāli morphological analyzer, and all the elegance of word formation becomes evident.

Metta,

Dmytro

2018-02-25 17:10 GMT+02:00 'James Anderson' jimanderson.on@... [palistudy] <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>:

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for the postings and links, I wasn’t aware of Kogen Mizuno’s Pali Dictionary, I’d appreciate a link to it, if the source is online or in some other format.

After a quick glance at the table via your link, I have some problems with it although such a table would be more helpful to me if it gave some consideration to the method of the Pali grammar tradition. The table is focussed on the inflectional endings but many of these endings happen to contain other affixes such as a preceding primary, secondary. or feminine affix with perhaps some vowel changes. In Buddhānaṃ, the inflectional affix is -naṃ, not -ānaṃ. The ā is the lengthening of the ‘a’ in the primary or kita nominal affix ‘ta’ (budh + ta > buddha) which precedes ‘naṃ.’ There are specific rules for forming Pāli words.

It is interesting to note that unlike Pāli. Pāṇinian Sanskrit grammar does not recognize ‘buddha’ as an agent noun (kattusādhana) according to the Kaccāyana commentators.

Best wishes,

Jim

From: palistudy@yahoogroups.com [mailto:palistudy@...com]
Sent: February 25, 2018 8:06 AM
To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [palistudy] Re: Pali Endings table by Kogen Mizuno

Sorry, last year Jim Anderson posted on this list a message which explained:

"I have seen in printed books a combination of a macron ( ¯ ) with a breve
( ˘ ) above with or without an underlying vowel especially when dealing
with prosody. It shows that the vowel can be either long or short in
scansion."

2018-02-25 12:24 GMT+02:00 Dmytro Ivakhnenko <aavuso@...>:
Dear Pāli friends,

I would like to improve the table of endings at

https://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/palisufi.htm
(adding the translations http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/Pali%20endings.xls , http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/Pali%20endings.rtf )

Would you please tell, what macron with breve above vowels denotes in the original table:

http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/Pali%20endings.pdf
namely,

akarămhase, gămaya-, -ăraṃ, -ăra, -imhă, acărisuṃ, kubbămhe, labhămhe, satthăraṃ, satthărā, kubbăvhe, labhăhi ?
Metta,
Dmytro