Re: āruppa & arūpa

Dear Bhante,

The -ya ending is a taddhita suffix which makes an abstract noun ouf of an adjective, so arūpa = formless arūpya = state of formlessnes. In Pali that becomes ārūppa as the -py-> -pp- and the a- changes to its vuddhi grade ā- (see PED s.v. ā-). Also see Edgerton' s BHS dictionary ārūpya. This is because of a rule from Vedic/Skt that the first vowel in a word with a taddhita suffix -ya normally appears in the vuddhi grade. PED gives other examples of this occurrence, ārogya fr. aroga; ālasiya fr. alasa

Mettā,

Bryan

On Thursday, August 9, 2018, 7:54:40 AM NDT, Kumara Bhikkhu kumara.bhikkhu@... [palistudy] <palistudy@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Dear all,

The āruppa in the early texts has clearly been changed in the commentaries to arūpa, as in arūpakammaṭṭhāna and arūpajjhāna. I can accept that rūpa = ruppa. But what's the justification for changing the prefix ā to a?

With the new word, we assume āruppa means "formless", but could it possibly mean something esle?

with metta,
Kumara Bhikkhu, ven.

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