attanopada

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Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Calque of Sanskrit आत्मनेपद (ātmanepada), composed as attano (for oneself) +‎ pada (word)

Noun[edit]

attanopada n

  1. (grammar) middle ending
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎[1], page 250; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      सब्बासं विभत्तीनं यानि यानि पराणि छ तानि तानि अत्तनोपदानि होन्ति।
      Sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ yāni yāni parāṇi cha tāni tāni attanopadāni honti.
      Whatever are the other six of all the endings, they are the middle endings.

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