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yesaṁ

ya

genitive plural masculine of the relative pronoun ya

1. of whom
2. of which
3. whose

Etymology. From Indo-European *yo- (same root as English 'you', Latin 'tu', Sanskrit 'tvam'). The Pali relative pronoun ya derives from this stem and functions to introduce relative clauses.

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

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