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nevidha

sandhi form (negative adverb)

1. neither here; lit. not even here

Built from

• na — prefix · not, negation
  Plain negation without. Cognate with English no and Latin ne.
• eva — prefix · even, just, emphasis
  Intensifying particle marking exclusivity or emphasis. Works with preceding negative to strengthen denial.
• idha — root · here, in this place
  Locative adverb indicating proximity to the speaker. Sanskrit iha, from a locative stem *idh-.

Analysis. na + eva + idha: negative particle na (not) + intensifying particle eva (even, just) + locative adverb idha (here). The contraction suppresses the final -a of na before eva, and eva itself coalesces into the following vowel, yielding ne-vidha.

Etymology. From na (not; cognate with English no, Latin ne) + eva (emphatic particle; from PIE *h₂eu- sense of emphasis) + idha (here; from locative stem *idh-, cf. Sanskrit iha). The spatial sense 'here' combines with negation and emphasis to yield the exclusive 'not even in this place'.

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

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