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yopāyaṁ

yopāya

nominative singular masculine of yopāya (resolving surface form yopāyaṁ with anusvāra)

  1. whoever, whatever person
  2. anyone

Analysis. yopāya is a relative pronoun compound: yo (relative) + pāya (emphatic particle, 'indeed'); the nominative singular masculine form yopāyaṁ appears in nominalized contexts or with anusvāra before consonants.

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

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