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yeneva
ya
relative pronoun with emphatic particle (sandhi form)
- ya (pron): whoever; whatever; whichever
- ya (letter): (gram) letter y; 34th letter of the alphabet; palatal semi-vowel
- ya (cs): (gram) ya; suffix used to form impersonal and passive verbs
- ya (cs): (gram) ya; conjugational sign of group 3 divādigaṇa verbs
- yena (pron): by which; with whichever
- yena (ind): because of; because of which
- yena (ind): where; wherever; in which direction; to; towards
- yeneva (sandhi): wherever; whenever; because
Built from
- ya — root · who, which
Indo-European relative pronoun stem (*yos-), cognate with Latin qui, English who, Greek hos. The concrete image is of pointing or singling out.
- -na — ending · instrumental/locative
Suffix marking the instrumental or locative case, expressing means, location, or direction. Here it indicates 'by which' or 'at which place'.
- eva — root · indeed, just
Emphatic particle strengthening the preceding relative pronoun; works like English 'just' or 'precisely'. No certain cognate, though the particle conveys the force of Latin -ve (or, and) or Greek -per (indeed).
Analysis. yena (by which, where) + eva (indeed, just) — the relative pronoun yena strengthened by the emphatic particle eva: 'just where', hence 'wherever' or 'whenever' in the sense of 'precisely where/when' or with emphatic force 'because indeed'.
Etymology. ya is the Indo-European relative stem cognate with Latin qui/quis, English who, Greek hos. The sandhi form yeneva combines the locative/instrumental case yena with eva, an emphatic particle from the same root as Latin vē (indeed) — compare English even, which carries the same emphatic weight.