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tvaṁ

2nd person singular nominative pronoun

  1. you
  2. thyself

Etymology. From Proto-Indo-European *twe-, the second-person singular pronoun. Cognates: Sanskrit tvam, Latin tu, Greek su (σύ), English thou, German du. The root is ancient and appears across all Indo-European languages with remarkable consistency.

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

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