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ye

ya

masc acc pl of ya (letter); masc loc sg of ya (letter); masc nom pl of ya (pron); nt nom pl of ya (pron); …

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. yāti (pr): goes; goes to; goes forward; proceeds; travels
6. yāti (pr): (of an army) marches against; pursues; routs
7. ye (pron): whoever; whatever; whichever; those who
8. ye (pron): whoever; whatever; whichever; those who (object)

Etymology. From Indo-European *yo-, the stem of relative and demonstrative pronouns found in Latin is, Greek ho, German jener, English that; Pali ya is the nominative plural form of the same root.

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

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