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aññehīti

añña

pronoun

1. another; other; different; someone else; not oneself
2. something more; something further; something else
3. ignorant; foolish; stupid; lit. who does not know
4. other (than); apart (from)

Built from

• añña — root · other, another, different
  From PIE *an-yo- (not + comparative suffix), meaning 'not-the-same' or 'separate.' The negation of identity lies at its core.
• ehi — ending · instrumental plural
  The instrumental case ending -hi (Pali plural -ehi) governs the noun 'by/with,' here marking the ablative sense 'by another means' or 'otherwise.'
• iti — root · thus, so; quotative
  An invariant particle that marks reported speech or sets a phrase as a modality marker. Occurs at phrase-end to freeze the preceding words into an adverbial or conditional frame.

Analysis. aññehi (instrumental plural of añña) + iti (thus, so); the instrumental 'by/with another' plus the quotative particle iti creates an adverbial phrase meaning 'otherwise, in another way' or 'by another means.' The construction shifts a noun-phrase into a modal or conditional sense.

Etymology. Pali añña derives from Sanskrit anya-, from PIE *an-yo- (the negative particle *an- 'not' + the comparative suffix *-yo-), literally 'not-the-same.' The root imagery is negation: what is not this, what is separate. Cognates: English 'other' (from PIE *ant-ero-), Latin alius, Greek allos.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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