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Pali
Etymology
Calque of Sanskrit परस्मैपद (parasmaipada), built as parassa (“for another”) + pada (“ending”)
Noun
parassapada n
- (grammar) active ending
c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar] (overall work in Pali), page 250; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:अथ सब्बासं विभत्तीनं यानि यानि पुब्बानि छ पदानि तानि तानि परस्सपदसञ्ञानि होन्ति।- Atha sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ yāni yāni pubbāni cha padāni, tāni tāni parassapadasaññāni honti.
- Then whatever are the first six endings of all the endings, they are called the active endings.
Declension
Declension table of "parassapada" (neuter)