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asuyeva

amu

pronoun, nominative/accusative singular or plural (emphatic form)

1. amu (pron): (of person or place or thing) that; such; so and so; that yonder
2. asu (pron): that; such; so and so

Built from

• asu — root · that, yonder
  An archaic demonstrative pronoun stem, cognate with Sanskrit adas and Latin ille. Points to a third person or thing with spatial or temporal distance.
• eva — ending · indeed, just, precisely
  Emphatic particle (from √vā 'blow') that marks the preceding word with focus or intensity, making the demonstrative more pointed: 'that very one, that exactly'.

Analysis. asu + eva: the demonstrative pronoun asu 'that' + the particle eva 'indeed, just, precisely', emphasizing or marking the referent with intensity or particularity. The -e- is a connecting vowel or result of sandhi.

Etymology. asu is an old demonstrative stem (cognate with Sanskrit adas, Lat. ille), pointing to something distant or already mentioned. eva (from √vā 'blow, blow away') means 'just' or 'indeed', giving the compound an emphatic, individualizing force: 'that very one, precisely that'.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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