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mayamettha

sandhi contraction: mayaṃ + ettha

1. in this case we

Built from

• mayaṃ — stem · we (nom. pl.)
  Plural of aham 'I'; nominative case marks the subject. Cognate with English 'me' (< Proto-Indo-European *me- 'I, me').
• ettha — stem · here, in this place
  Locative adverb from *etad- 'this'; forms spatial anchorings. Related to English 'that' and Sanskrit atra, amin the same family of demonstratives.

Analysis. mayaṃ (nominative plural of aham, 'we') + ettha (locative adverb, 'in this place, here'): 'we in this case', used to anchor a statement to the speaker's immediate context.

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

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