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mayā

ahaṃ

1st instr sg of ahaṃ (pron); 1st abl sg of ahaṃ (pron); masc nom pl of maya (adj); fem nom sg of maya (adj); …

1. ahaṃ (pron): I
2. maya (adj): made of; constructed by; built of
3. mayā (pron): by me; with me
4. mayā (pron): than me; lit. from me

Built from

• ma- — root · 1st person
  Pronominal root underlying all 1st person forms in Pali; cognate with Sanskrit and the Indo-European first-person stem *me- (English me, Latin mē, Greek me).
• -yā — ending · instrumental singular
  Marks the instrumental case (by means of, with, near) on singular pronouns; in context expresses agency and accompaniment.

Etymology. ahaṃ is the nominative singular of the 1st person pronoun, cognate with Sanskrit aham and the Indo-European root *ego- (English I, Latin ego, Greek ego). The instrumental mayā derives from the pronominal stem ma- with the instrumental singular ending -yā, functioning similarly to Latin mē.

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

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