añño

añña

masc nom sg of añña (pron); masc nom sg of añña (adj)

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

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añña — root · other, another
An ancient pronominal root expressing otherness or difference from the speaker's perspective. Related to Sanskrit anya- and the Indo-European negating element *an-, it originally conveyed 'not identical' or 'not the same individual'.

Etymology. From Sanskrit anya-, itself from Indo-European *an- (not, one). The root sense is 'not the same one'; cognate with English 'other' (from Proto-Germanic *anþaraz, sharing the same Indo-European negation). The semantic drift from 'not-one' to 'another' (a different individual) is universal across Indo-European languages.

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

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