Tumh’-amhehi nam ākaṃ

After “tumha” and “amha”, ‘naṃ’ [becomes] ‘ākaṃ’.

Kaccāyana 161
Rūpasiddhi 244
Saddanīti 344
Nāma-Kappa · Tatiya-Kaṇḍa

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161. 244. Tumh’-amhehi nam ākaṃ (344)

[Tumha-amhehi + naṃ + ākaṃ = 3 words]

Tehi tumha-amhehi naṃvacanassa ākaṃ hoti.

Tumhākaṃ, amhākaṃ.

Naṃ iti kimatthaṃ? Tumhehi, amhehi.

After “tumha” and “amha”, ‘naṃ’ [becomes] ‘ākaṃ’.

After [the bases] “tumha” and “amha”, there is ‘ākaṃ’ of the inflection ‘naṃ’.

Example

Tumhākaṃ = tumha + naṃ (‘naṃ’ is substituted by ‘ākaṃ’ (§161); ‘a’ is elided (§83)).

What is the purpose of saying “naṃ”? [This sutta does not apply when there is no ‘naṃ’, such as in:] Tumhehi, amhehi.

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