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bhaveyyaṁ

bhavati

1st person singular optative (conditional) active

1. would be
2. might be
3. should be
4. could become

Built from

• bhav — root · become, be
  From √bhū. The fundamental state of existence or coming into being; the root underlying all conditioned phenomena in Buddhist thought.
• e — ending · optative stem-former
  Thematic vowel marking the optative mood, signaling potential or conditional action.
• yyaṁ — ending · 1st person singular optative
  Personal ending for first person singular in optative mood, expressing what the speaker might or should do/be.

Analysis. bhav-e-yyaṁ: the optative mood of bhavati (to be, become), expressing possibility, wish, or conditional state

Etymology. √bhū (become, be) — cognate with English "be", German "bin", Greek phuein (φύειν, to bring forth, grow), Latin fuī (was). The root expresses fundamental existence or coming-to-be.

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

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