there are a ton of dictionaries which are useful but once a word has been conjugated and contracted it can no longer be looked up in a dictionary unless one knows what it's roots are.
is there a web site that breaks them down bit by bit? specifically by sutta quote?
a pretend example, since i don't know pali this is gibberish, but this is what it would look like roughly:
sutta quote: "abijjimsa viharatimassa metta"
translation: "one should practice loving kindness every day."
abijjimsa = a contraction of the words: abijha which means "one" and himsa which means "should".
viharatimassa = a contraction of the words: viharama which means "practice" and timassi which means "daily".
metta= loving kindness.
a web site that breaks down each word?
Re: a web site that breaks down each word?
Hi Alan,
http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/palisufi.htm
http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/Pali%20endings.xls
Regarding compounds:
- it's easy to uncompound them when you know the most used words and the rules of sandhi;
- you can look up the Atthakatha (this is done by a single click in CSCD http://www.tipitaka.org/cst4 ).
Regarding conjugation, there's a useful table:alan... wrote:there are a ton of dictionaries which are useful but once a word has been conjugated and contracted it can no longer be looked up in a dictionary unless one knows what it's roots are.
is there a web site that breaks them down bit by bit? specifically by sutta quote?
http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/palisufi.htm
http://dhamma.ru/paali/tables/Pali%20endings.xls
Regarding compounds:
- it's easy to uncompound them when you know the most used words and the rules of sandhi;
- you can look up the Atthakatha (this is done by a single click in CSCD http://www.tipitaka.org/cst4 ).
Re: a web site that breaks down each word?
There's also the wonderful Digital Pali Reader (a stand-alone app for use on Firefox) though it doesn't give you the answers, it offers you suggestions, and it does make the entire Pali canon available.