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kā

ka

fem nom sg of ka (interr); fem nom pl of ka (interr); fem acc pl of ka (interr); fem nom sg of ka (pron); …

1. ka (pron): who?; what?; which?
2. ka (pron): where?
3. ka (nt): water
4. kā (prefix): small; mean; bad
5. kā (pron): what?; which?; which woman?
6. ki (pron): who?; what?; which?
7. kā (fem): doing; performing; making

Etymology. From Indo-European *kwo-, the interrogative stem found in Latin qui, quae, quod; Greek tis (with different ablaut); English who, what. The feminine form kā preserves the original feminine ending *-ā.

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

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