If you prefer fancy Suttacentral explanations, you, of course, have a right to do so.asahi wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:08 amHere is another explanation .Assaji wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:31 am "Nirodha" means "cessation". Like an English word "cessation", it refers to different things in different contexts. Sometimes it refers to "dukkha nirodha", sometimes not. See, for example, nine various types of nirodha described at:
https://www.palikanon.com/english/wtb/a ... irodha.htm
Nirōdha comes from “nir”+”udaya”, where “nir” means stop and “udaya” means “arise”.
Still, If you would like to know the real etymology of this word, I can tell you that it originates from the verb "nirundhati", which comes from "ni" plus "rundhati".
https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/p ... type=exact
https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/p ... type=exact
The original root here is "rudh":
https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=UX ... &lpg=PA623
This fancy explanation may be appealing, but it doesn't hold water, since it contradicts the actual usage of this word.Thus nirōdha means stop something from arising . It doesnt mean something exists ceased but the cause is eliminated , no new arising is nirodha .