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amhākaṁ

aham

1st person plural genitive pronoun (amhākaṁ)

1. of us
2. our

Built from

• amha — stem · we (oblique stem)
  The 1st person plural oblique stem, from the same Indo-European root as English 'I', Latin 'ego', Sanskrit 'aham'. The plural form shifts from singular aham to amha-, showing the full paradigm of personal pronouns across numbers and cases.
• -ṁ — ending · genitive
  The genitive case ending marks possession or relation: amhākaṁ = 'of us, our'. In this form it attaches to the oblique stem amha-.

Analysis. amhākaṁ is the 1st person plural genitive form of aham 'I'. The stem amha- is the oblique form for 1st plural, with the genitive ending -ṁ.

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

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