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yamhi

ya

masc loc sg of ya (letter); masc loc sg of ya (pron); nt loc sg of ya (pron); masc loc sg of ya (cs)

1. ya (pron): whoever; whatever; whichever
2. ya (letter): (gram) letter y; 34th letter of the alphabet; palatal semi-vowel
3. ya (cs): (gram) ya; suffix used to form impersonal and passive verbs
4. ya (cs): (gram) ya; conjugational sign of group 3 divādigaṇa verbs
5. yamhi (pron): in whoever; in whom; in which

Built from

• ya — root · who, which
  Relative pronoun stem from IE *yo-, the same root as Latin qui and English who. Marks the antecedent in dependent clauses.
• mhi — ending · locative singular
  Locative singular ending -mhi (also -min, -smiṁ) expressing location 'in, at, on'. Here it locates the action within the relative clause.

Etymology. From Indo-European *yo- (relative pronoun stem), cognate with Latin qui, Greek ho (ὁ), English who. The locative singular yamhi shows the regular Pali locative ending -mhi added to the oblique stem ya-.

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

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