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kassa

ka

masc dat sg of ka (interr); nt dat sg of ka (interr); masc gen sg of ka (interr); nt gen sg of ka (interr); …

1. ka (pron): who?; what?; which?
2. ka (pron): where?
3. ka (nt): water
4. kassa (pron): to whom?; for whom?
5. kassa (pron): of whom?; whose?
6. kassati (pr): drags
7. kassi (aor): dragged
8. ki (pron): who?; what?; which?

Built from

• ka — root · who, what
  Indo-European interrogative *kwo-. The bare stem ka serves nominative and accusative; oblique cases use the stem kassa- from an archaic genitive-dative form.
• -ssa — ending · dat/gen sg
  Old Indo-European genitive-dative ending fused into a single oblique form. In kassa, marks both dative (to/for whom?) and genitive (of whom?, whose?) singular.

Etymology. Root *kwo-, Indo-European interrogative stem. Cognates: English who, German wer, Latin quī, Greek pós. The oblique stem kassa- (dat/gen) preserves the old Indo-European genitive-dative form.

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

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