Tagged: nāma
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1: Overview: Pali Essentials
1A concise overview of the Pāḷi language covering key features
2: Grammar: Nouns and more (`nāma`, `sandhi`)
2How to read a noun form: split the joined words, recognise the ending, find the lemma; the shapes of nouns, pronouns, numbers, prefixes and particles a reader meets on every page
2.2: Nouns: the major inflection tables
3How to read a noun's ending: gender (`liṅga`), number and the eight sets of endings; the inflection tables of the major lemma classes in one view, `purisa`, `aggi`, `bhikkhu`, `kaññā`, `ratti`, `nadī`, `citta`, `aṭṭhi`, `cakkhu`; adjectives agree.
2.3: Irregular inflections
4The common nouns that do not follow `purisa`: `rājā`, `attā`, `brahmā`, `satthā`, `pitā`, `mātā`, `bhagavā`, `āyasmā`, `arahaṁ`, the participles in `-ant`, `kamma`, the `mano` group and `go`; the shapes a reader meets, and the rule that makes each.
2.5: `saṅkhyā` (Numbers)
5How to recognise a number and its ending: `dve`, `tayo`, `cattāri`, `pañca` and the `-nnaṁ`, `-hi`, `-su` they carry {67}, {87}, {89}, {90}, {131}–{134}; the teens in `-dasa`, the tens in `-ti`, `sataṁ` and `sahassaṁ`; and the ordinals `paṭhama`, `dutiya`, `tatiya` … {373}–{377}.
2.6: `upasagga` (Prefixes)
6The twenty prefixes, what each adds to a root's meaning, their shapes at the join (`sam`, `saṅ`, a doubled consonant, `abbh`, `ajjh`, `pacc`, `paṭi`, `o`) and the rule that drops their endings {221}.