Re: Pali - Every few days - [B016] tiini'maani

Hi Nina,
That's very interesting. I haven't reached Ch 26 in
Warder yet, so wasn't familiar with the ordinal to
cardinal conversion.
However, I don't think that's what's happening here.
I interpreted tiini'maani as tiini (three) + imaani
(these), both nominative plural.
Hence:
Tii.ni�maani, bhikkhave, nidaanaani kammaana.m
samudayaaya.
There are these three causes for the arising of karma.

Metta,
John

> Dear John and friends,
> Thank you again, John.
> I at first had trouble with the tiini,maani , but I
> solved it. I thought
> maybe others also had the same problem, and
> therefore, I mention now what I
> found. Warder, Ch 26, ordinal numbers: adding suffix
> -ma (fem. mii) to the
> cardinals. That does it: tiinimaani, in one word.
> Threefold.
> I it is very useful to look up words of this series.
> Nina.

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