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आवाम्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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Sanskrit personal pronouns
first person singular dual plural
lemma () आ॒व (āvá) अ॒स्म (asmá)
nominative case अ॒हम् (ahám) आ॒वाम् (āvā́m) व॒यम् (vayám)
enclitic form(s) मा ()मे (me) नौ (nau) नः (naḥ)
second person singular dual plural
lemma त्व (tvá) यु॒व (yuvá) यु॒ष्म (yuṣmá)
nominative case त्वम् (tvám) यु॒वाम् (yuvā́m) यू॒यम् (yūyám)
enclitic form(s) त्वा (tvā)ते (te) वाम् (vām) वः (vaḥ)

Derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *aHwá (acc.du.),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *n̥h₁-wé.[2]

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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आ॒वाम् (āvā́m)

  1. nominative dual of आव (āvá): we two
    Synonyms: आवम् (āvám) (Vedic), वाम् (vā́m) (Rigvedic)
  2. accusative dual of आव (āvá): us two

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References

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  1. ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2018), “Chapter XVII: Indo-Iranian”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), volume 3, Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The morphology of Indo-Iranian, page 1904:*ā-u̯á; *ā-u̯a-(H)ám
  2. ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems]‎[1] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 567