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ahaṁ

1st person singular nominative pronoun

  1. I
  2. me

Etymology. From Indo-European *eg̑-, the first-person singular pronoun. Cognate with Sanskrit aham, Latin ego, Greek egō (as in egoist), English I, and German ich. The root expresses the speaker's self-reference across Indo-European languages.

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

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