Template:pi-root

pi-root

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Usage

This template can be used:

1. either in etymologies of terms derived from a root
2. or as a headword-template for Pali roots.

Parameters

For using as a headword-line template

In this rôle, the template is used for displaying the Pali root headword along with its names in Pali. Additionally, it also puts the word into "Category:Pali roots". Pali roots are only to be recorded in the Roman script; they are not actual words, but abstractions.

• |head= : The root, given in the Roman script. This is optional and not needed in normal practice, for it defaults to the page name.
• |Pali= : First Pali name (optional).
• |Pali2= : Second Pali name (optional).
• |Pali3= : Third Pali name (optional).
• |tr= : (optional) Transliteration

One reason for there to be multiple names is that the traditional Pali grammarians may split roots which we choose to regard as the same, e.g. the roots of vīmaṃsati and manññate.

Transliteration is only needed for non-Roman script forms for which it is not implicitly given by {{pi-sc}} on the definition line. Roots are normally given only in Roman script.

For using as an etymology template

This documentation should not be relied upon; users check the categories a page is placed in using this template, as well as checking the visible text on the page.

Although |lang= can be used to use this template for a non-Pali term, it is more appropriate to use a combination of {{suffix}} and {{root}}.

|1=

The root from which a term is or is perceived to be derived. This would also categorise the term by its root. For example: For example:

{{pi-root|bhar}} gives:

From the root bhar

and categorises into Category:Pali terms belonging to the root bhar

|2= (optional)

The suffix attached to the root for forming the term. For example:

{{pi-root|bhū|ta}} gives:

From the root bhū +‎ -ta

and categorises into Category:Pali terms belonging to the root bhū and Category:Pali terms suffixed with -ta

|id= (optional)

Sense id for the root; see {{l}} and {{m}}. Note that this will appear in the name of the category.

|notext= (optional)

Used for suppressing the text "From the root […] ". Categorisation will not be suppressed. If this parameter is used, the term "root" appears beside the root in brackets. For example:

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|notext=1}} gives:

bhū (root) +‎ -ta

|sr= (optional)

For using the text "The Pali root is […] " instead of "From the root […] ". To be used when the term is inherited from Indian Old Indic ('Sanskrit'), Proto-Indo-Aryan, Proto-Indo-Iranian, or Proto-Indo-European, but derivation from a Pali root is also possible but is not being explained. Categorisation will not be suppressed. For example:

{{pi-root|bhū|sr=1}} gives:

The Pali root is bhū

In this case, the value of |2= is ignored.

|se=1 (optional)

For using the text "By surface analysis, […] " instead of "From the root […] ". To be used in place of |sr= only if the term can be from a root + suffix. This adds the term "root" in brackets. Categorisation (by root and suffix) will not be suppressed. For example:

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|se=1}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhū (root) +‎ -ta

This output is intended to be at the start of a sentence, and capitalisation cannot be suppressed.

Use of |sr= and |se= is inconsistent and unsupported.

|nocap=1 (optional)

Used for suppressing capitalisation of the first letter. Categorisation will not be suppressed. For example:

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|nocap=1}} gives:

from the root bhū +‎ -ta

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|nocap=1|se=1}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhū (root) +‎ -ta

{{pi-root|bhū|nocap=1|sr=1}} gives:

the Pali root is bhū

|t= (optional)

For giving a short English translation of the root. For example:

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|t=to shake, tremble, be agitated or disturbed}} gives:

from the root bhū (“to shake, tremble, be agitated or disturbed”) +‎ -ta

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|se=1|t=to be satisfied}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhū (“to be satisfied”, root) +‎ -ta

{{pi-root|bhū|se=1|t=to eat or drink}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhū (“to eat or drink”, root) +‎ -{{{2}}}

|t2= (optional)

For giving a short English translation of the suffix. For example:

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|t2=-er}} gives:

From the root bhū +‎ -ta (“-er”)

{{pi-root|bhū|ta|se=1|t=to nourish|t2=-er}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhū (“to nourish”, root) +‎ -ta (“-er”)

|sa= (optional)

Where the word is ultimately derived from a Sanskrit root, this root can be given by this argument and the term will be categorised by this root. For example:

{{pi-root|bhar|ana|sa=भृ|se=1}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhar (root) +‎ -ana

and categorises into Category:Pali terms derived from the Sanskrit root भृ and Category:Pali terms suffixed with -ana.

|PIA= (optional)

Where the word is ultimately derived from a Proto-Indo-Aryan root, this root can be given by this argument and the term categorised by this right. For example:

|PII= (optional)

Where the word is ultimately derived from a Proto-Indo-Iranian root, this root can be given by this argument and the term categorised by this root. For example:

{{pi-root|bhar|ana|PII=bʰar|se=1}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhar (root) +‎ -ana

and categorises into Category:Pali terms derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian root *bʰar- and Category:Pali terms suffixed with -ana.

|PIE= (optional)

Where the word is ultimately derived from a Proto-Indo-European root, this root can be given by this argument and the term will be categorised by this root. For example:

{{pi-root|bhar|ana|PIE=bʰer|se=1}} gives:

By surface analysis, bhar (root) +‎ -ana

and categorises into Category:Pali terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer- and Category:Pali terms suffixed with -ana.