apa "away; down; badly"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1320

The preverb apa mostly means "away" --

kramate "he walks"

apakramate "he walks away"

harati "takes"

apaharati "takes away, steals"

It can mean also "opposite, backwards" --

cinoti "gathers"

apacinoti "loses, decreases"

It can means also "wrongly, damaging" --

apacAra- "bad behaviour, offence, crime"

Compounded before nouns it can mean "lacking" --

apabhI- "fearless"

apadhUma- "smokeless"

apa sometimes turns into apas by apAcca --

kirati "he scatters"

avaskirate "it scrapes the ground"

upa "near; down"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1321

As in --

gacchati "goes"

upagacchati "goes near, approaches, goes to see"

vizati "goes in"

upavizati "sits down"

hasati "laughs"

upahasati "laughs down at, derides, ridicules"

AG "coming"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1322

The preverb A(G) expresses movement towards here --

gacchati "goes"

Agacchati "comes"

patanty ulkAH "meteors are falling"

Apatanty ulkAH "meteors are falling towards us"

In some cases, AG has no meaning --

rohati "climbs"

Arohati "climbs"

Rule aT;ku;pv;AG;nu mentions this AG so as to remind us that Natvam can skip it over when it is before a Nopadeza root --

pari + AG + naddha →ikoyaNaci paryA + naddha →Natvam paryANaddha-

anu "after"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1323

When anu is a preverb it can mean "after" in the sense of "following" --

gacchati "goes"

anugacchati "goes after, follows"

dravati "runs"

anudravati "runs after, chases"

anuplavate "jumps after, swims after, sails after"

With bhU, it makes "experience" --

bhavati "is there"

anubhavati "experiences"

ava "down"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1324

ava usually means "downward" --

rohati "climbs"

avarohati "climbs down, descends"

But joined to verbs meaning "go", it makes "understand" --

gacchati "goes"

avagacchati "understands"

eti "goes"

avaiti "understands"

To mean "undergo" in the sense of "experience (duress etc.)", those won't work. Use anu + bhU instead.

dus means bad, hard to do, or evilmmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1325

This prAdi is only used as a former. It is never a preverb.

It is often found in front of action nouns with the meaning of "hard to do" --

dus + labh + khal → durlabhaH "hard to get"

duSkara- "hard to do"

dusHsaha "hard to endure"

duSprApa "hard to get"

(Notice that dus sometimes sounds like duS before p ph k kh. See id;ud-upa)

It can also be compounded in front of any noun to mean "bad" or "evil" --

durlAbhaH "a bad acquisition"

durmati- "weak-minded; evil-minded"

Those can get the su' that means "very" --

sudurlabhaH "very hard to get"

See also ku', su'.

ku' means evil or badmmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1326

This prAdi is only used as a former. It is never a preverb.

kupuruSa- "bad man"

kuputra- "wicked son"

See also su', dus.

su' means good, very, or easilymmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1327

This prAdi is only used as a former. It is never a preverb.

Don't confuse it with the su affix.

sukRta- "well done"

sumahat- "very big"

sulabha- "easy to get"

See also ku', dus.

pari "around"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1329

The preverb pari means "around" --

kUpaGM gacchati "goes to the well"

kUpamM parigacchati "goes around the well"

pra "pre-"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1330

The preverb pra may mean --

in front, forward

start to

previously, pre-

East

in the epics, it is sometimes used as filler.

pra as a preverb before R roots makes prAr, by upasargAd Rti dhAtau --

prArcchati "moves on"

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prati "towards; against"mmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1331

prati as a preverb means --

towards

pratigacchati "goes towards"

backwards, against, counter-, back --

pratigacchati "goes back"

vijitya gAz ca prati-yAtu pArthaH "let him take the cows and go back"

pratihanti "he counterstrikes"

prativadati "speaks back, answers"

before a noun it can mean --

westward

pratyac- "western" (has ac''')

against

pratiloma "against the hair"

every (only before time words)

pratidinam "every day"

sammmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1332

The preverb sam sometimes means "coming together", sometimes "all together" --

girim agacchan "they went to the mountain (each one on its own)"

giriM samagacchan "they went to the mountain (together); they gathered at the mountain"

It can mean also "completely", like the "up" in English "eat up" --

bhakSayatv ekaH "only one person should eat this"

samM-bhakSayatv ekaH "only one person should eat this up"

In the epics, sam often appears to be just filler. I mean to say, verbs such as samagacchat often appear to mean exactly the same thing as agacchat "came".

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udmmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1333

The preverb ud means "up" --

patati "flies"

utpatati "flies up, takes off"

nipatati "flies down, lands" (see ni)

When not a preverb, it can mean "up" or "north".

"Up" can mean "north" because when you are "oriented", that is, looking to the Orient (rising sun), the himAlaya, which is the highest part of the country, falls to your left.

vimmmmmmmmm ^ C+ 1334

The preverb vi means "away" --

krINAti he buys

vikrINAti he sells

stIrNa- "spread"

vistIrNa- "spread far and wide"

dravanti "they run"

vidravanti "they run away in all directions"

IkSate "he looks"

vIkSate "he looks all around, he commands a view of"

trasta- "scared"

vi-trasta- "scared out of his wits, terrified, panicked"

zruta- "heard about"

vi-zruta- "heard about all over, famous, renowned"

In the epics, vi is often just to be ignored.

As a former before a noun, vi means "lacking, deprived of" --

vi-ratha- "deprived of his car"

vi-varNa- "discolored"

vi-yoga- "disconnection"

vi-zoka- "sorrowless"