muñcati

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

𑀫𑀼𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀢𑀺 (Brahmi script)
मुञ्चति (Devanagari script)
মুঞ্চতি (Bengali script)
මුඤ‍්චති (Sinhalese script)
မုဉ္စတိ or မုၺ္ၸတိ or မုၺ်ၸတိ (Burmese script)
มุญฺจติ or มุญจะติ (Thai script)
ᨾᩩᨬ᩠ᨧᨲᩥ (Tai Tham script)
ມຸຎ຺ຈຕິ or ມຸຎຈະຕິ (Lao script)
មុញ្ចតិ (Khmer script)
𑄟𑄪𑄐𑄴𑄌𑄖𑄨 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcati).

The use of the active form with passive meaning has been attributed to a similarity at some point of writings of the conjuncts 'cc' and 'ñc'.^[1]

Although printed Pali uses touching letters for the most part and restricts conjuncts to those with ය (ya) and ර (ra) and those which remove the right hand portion of ක (ka), ත (ta) and න (na), much greater use of conjuncts has been made in manuscripts. Thus it is reported^[2] that there is a ligature for 'cc' (but ඩ (ḍa)) as well as for 'ñc' namely ඤ්‍ච (ñca). Now, the latter is formed by prefixing sanyaka, which can denote a nasal sound or else gemination, and it is possible that we have a conflict in usage. For consonants other than palatals, sanyaka seems to denote a nasal only for the voiced unaspirated stop.

Verb

muñcati (root muc, second conjugation)

to loose^[1]^[3]
to release^[1]^[3]
to dismiss,^[3] to give up,^[3] to abandon,^[3] to omit^[3]
to send forth^[1]^[3]
passive of muñcati^[1]

Conjugation

Conjugation of "muñcati"

	Active		Middle
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Present
1st	muñcāmi	muñcāma	muñce	muñcāmhe
2nd	muñcasi	muñcatha	muñcase	muñcavhe
3rd	muñcati	muñcanti	muñcate	muñcante or muñcare
Imperative
1st	muñcāmi	muñcāma	muñce	muñcāmase
2nd	muñca or muñcāhi	muñcatha	muñcassu	muñcavho
3rd	muñcatu	muñcantu	muñcataṃ	muñcantaṃ
Optative
1st	muñceyyāmi or muñceyyaṃ or muñce	muñceyyāma	muñceyyaṃ	muñceyyāmhe
2nd	muñceyyāsi or muñce	muñceyyātha	muñcetho	muñceyyavho
3rd	muñceyya or muñce	muñceyyuṃ	muñcetha	muñceraṃ
Aorist
1st	amuñciṃ or muñciṃ	amuñcimha or muñcimha
2nd	amuñci or muñci	amuñcittha or muñcittha
3rd	amuñci or muñci	amuñciṃsu or muñciṃsu

Present active participle: muñcant, which see for forms and usage
Present middle participle: muñcamāna, which see for forms and usage
Past participle: mutta, which see for forms and usage
Passive: muccati, which see for forms and usage.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “muñcati”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead
^ Gunasékera, Abraham Mendis (1891) A Comprehensive Grammar of the Sinhalese Language, Sri Lanka Sahitya Mandalaya; reprinted 1962, page 13: “In Pali writings the compounds ඩ and ඞ often occur. ඩ = ච‍්ච chcha and ඞ = බ‍්බ bba, and are respectively called Páli chayanna පාළි චයන්න and Sabba bayanna සබ‍්බ බයන්න, in contradistinction to ඩ ḍa and ඞ ṅa, which are alike in form.”
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 251.

[PTS-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “muñcati”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

[2] Gunasékera, Abraham Mendis (1891) A Comprehensive Grammar of the Sinhalese Language, Sri Lanka Sahitya Mandalaya; reprinted 1962, page 13: “In Pali writings the compounds ඩ and ඞ often occur. ඩ = ච‍්ච chcha and ඞ = බ‍්බ bba, and are respectively called Páli chayanna පාළි චයන්න and Sabba bayanna සබ‍්බ බයන්න, in contradistinction to ඩ ḍa and ඞ ṅa, which are alike in form.”

[Childers-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 251.

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