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kiṁ

interrogative pronoun, nominative/accusative singular neuter

  1. what?
  2. why?
  3. something

Etymology. Indo-European *kʷ-i-, the interrogative stem seen in Latin quī, Greek tís, English who, what. The neuter form kiṁ is used for non-personal things and abstract questions.

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

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