आवाम्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

आवाम् • (āvā́m)

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