accusative singular masculine of añña (pronoun/adjective)
Analysis. Simple stem; no internal composition.
Etymology. From Indo-European *alyos (other, else). Cognates: Latin alius, Greek allos (alloy, allocation), German else, English else. The root conveys the sense of 'the other one in a pair'.
Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.
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