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kaṁ

ka

accusative singular masculine of ka (interrogative pronoun)

  1. whom?
  2. what?

Etymology. From Indo-European *kwo-, the interrogative stem underlying Latin quī, Greek tís, English who. The ablaut series *kwo- (nominative), *kem- (accusative, oblique) gives Pali ka and kaṁ respectively.

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

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