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yesañca

ya

genitive plural relative pronoun + enclitic conjunction (sandhi form)

1. ya (pron): whoever; whatever; whichever
2. yesañca (sandhi): and for whoever
3. yesaṃ (pron): for whoever; to whom; for which; for such and such
4. yesaṃ (pron): of whoever; of whom; of which; of such and such; of them

Built from

• ya — root · relative pronoun: who, which
  The stem of all oblique cases of this relative pronoun. Shows Indo-European *yo- (Latin quī, Greek hó).
• es — ending · genitive plural stem formant
  The epenthetic vowel-cluster that appears in oblique plural forms of ya (yesaṃ, yesañca, yeshañ, etc.); compare Sanskrit yas- in yeshāṃ.
• aṃ — ending · genitive plural marker
  Marks possession or relation ('of whom, of which'). The -m assimilates to the following -c- by becoming -ñ.
• ca — prefix · and, also
  Enclitic conjunction cognate with Latin -que and Sanskrit ca. Often attached to the preceding word by sandhi.

Analysis. yesaṃ (genitive plural of ya, 'of whom/which') + ca (enclitic 'and'), bound together by sandhi: yesaṃ + ca > yesañca with assimilation of -m to -ñ before c-.

Etymology. ya is the Pali form of Sanskrit ya-, the common Indo-European relative pronoun stem *yo- (English 'you' in its original sense of 'that which turns toward', Latin quī, Greek hó). The genitive plural ending -esaṃ (-aṃ after -es-) marks possession or relation. The enclitic ca 'and' is cognate with Latin que and Sanskrit ca, both meaning 'and'.

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

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