आवाम्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Sanskrit personal pronouns
first person singular dual plural
lemma (ma) आव (āva) अस्म (asma)
nominative case अहम् (aham) आवाम् (āvām) वयम् (vayam)
enclitic form(s) मा (), मे (me) नौ (nau) नः (naḥ)
second person singular dual plural
lemma त्व (tva) युव (yuva) युष्म (yuṣma)
nominative case त्वम् (tvam) युवाम् (yuvām) यूयम् (yūyam)
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

Pronoun

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

Coordinate terms

References

  1. ^ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2017–2018), “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), 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] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 567