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camha

aham

1st person singular nominative pronoun; surface form 'camha' is instrumental plural (by us, with us)

1. I
2. we (plural)

Built from

• ca- — stem · we (plural)
  Oblique plural stem of aham (I). Related to Sanskrit vayam (we), Greek hē-mas (us), English we — all from an Indo-European root *we-.
• -mha — ending · instrumental
  Instrumental ending marking the means or agent ('by', 'with'). In this context, 'by us' or 'with us'.

Analysis. camha is the instrumental plural of the first-person pronoun aham (I); ca- is the plural stem, -mha is the instrumental ending.

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

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