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sakaṁ

saka

accusative singular neuter of saka (possessive adjective)

1. one's own
2. belonging to oneself
3. personal

Built from

• sa — root · self
  Reflexive stem. Cognate with Sanskrit sva-, English self, and same (via Old Norse sami, Latin similis). Expresses the concrete sense of 'one's own person' as distinct from others.
• ka — ending · possessive
  Adjectival suffix forming possessives from pronouns. Here it marks the word as a possessive adjective meaning 'belonging to oneself' or 'proper to'.
• m — ending · accusative singular neuter
  Neuter accusative singular ending -aṁ, agrees with a neuter noun object or links to a neuter predicate. Often used in dhamma contexts for 'that which is one's own' — one's own kamma, one's own path.

Analysis. saka is a possessive adjective formed from the reflexive pronoun stem sa-; sakaṁ is its accusative singular neuter form, used attributively or predicatively to mark something as one's own or proper to a person.

Etymology. From the reflexive pronoun sa- (self, own), cognate with Sanskrit sva- and English self, same; the -ka suffix is a common Pali possessive formation.

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

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