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jaññajaññaṁ

jañña

accusative singular neuter; appears reduplicated (jaññajaññaṁ) for emphasis or distributive sense

1. again and again
2. repeatedly
3. each time

Built from

• jañña — root · occasion, time
  From √jan 'be born, happen'; concrete sense of an instance or event arising.
• jaññaṁ — ending · accusative singular
  Accusative case marking the direct object; the -ṁ ending (before labials) or -aṁ indicates this case in neuter nouns.

Analysis. Reduplicated form of jañña (accusative of jañña, 'time' or 'occasion'), doubled for iterative emphasis: 'time after time' or 'occasion after occasion'.

Etymology. Root √jan (to be born, to happen, occasion); the noun jañña derives from this root meaning 'an occasion' or 'instance'. Cognate with Sanskrit janma 'birth' and English kin, kind (things born of the same root). The reduplication is an Indo-European device for frequency and emphasis.

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

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