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yuvā

yuva

masc nom sg of yuva (noun); masc voc sg of yuva (noun)

1. youngster; youth; lad

Built from

• yu — root · young
  Expressing the earliest stage of maturation and vigor of life. Cognate with English young, German jung, Latin iuvenis.
• va — ending · agent/noun suffix
  Nominal formant creating a masculine noun denoting a person or entity in the state expressed by the root.

Etymology. From Indo-European *yu- 'young' (cognates: English young, German jung, Latin iuvenis 'young man'). The -va suffix is a nominal formant. The root sense is vitality and the early stages of life.

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

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