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mamaṁ

aham

1st person singular accusative; alternatively analyzed as oblique stem mama- in accusative form mamaṁ

1. me
2. myself

Built from

• ma — root · me, myself
  The ancient root pronoun, the same across Indo-European languages (English me, Latin me, Greek me). Here reduplicated in the oblique stem mama-.

Analysis. The form mamaṁ is the accusative singular of the 1st person pronoun. The oblique stem mama- (used in genitive, dative, instrumental, ablative, locative, and accusative) appears here with the -ṁ ending typical of accusative singular. The nominative is aham.

Etymology. From Indo-European *me-, the most ancient pronoun, cognate with English me, Latin me, Greek me, Sanskrit mā/mam. The oblique stem mama- is a reduplicated form (ma-ma) also found in Sanskrit mam-/mama-.

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

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