Vadassa vajjaṃ

[There is] ‘vajja’ of “vada”.

Kaccāyana 500
Rūpasiddhi 486
Saddanīti 1006
Ākhyāta-Kappa · Catuttha-Kaṇḍa

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500. 486. Vadassa vajjaṃ (1006)

[Vadassa + vajjaṃ = 2 words]

Vada icc etassa dhātussa sabbassa vajjādeso hoti vā.

Vajjāmi, vajjeyya; vadāmi (M. i, 11), vadeyya (M. i, 105).

[There is] ‘vajja’ of “vada”.

Optionally, there is the substitution ‘vajja’ of the whole root “vada”.

Examples

Vajjāmi, vadāmi (I say); vajjeyya, vadeyya ([he] should say).

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