Re: paññaavuddhisutta.m.

Dear Jim,
I have a sad confession. One of the biggest problems I have is
with the English meta-language used to describe the grammar in
pali. In New Zealand we don't study latin and thus all the words
such as  nominative, accusative,
instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative are  like a
foreign language in themselves( I understand verbs, modals nouns
etc).  I recently ordered a grammar book that explains some of
these terms but if you can recommend others I will order those.
It is the hardest thing I found with studying Warder.
robert
--- Jim Anderson <jimanderson_on@...> wrote:
> Dear Mike,
>
> >Thanks--I remember now I didn't know what to do with
> >the ''me'.  Is there a book where I might have been
> >able to look this up in an index of some kind?
>
> I'm not sure if I've understood you. I doubt you will find 'me
> listed in an
> index. But for 'ime' you'd find it in a declension table.
> Warder's doesnt't
> seem to give a complete table (at least not on p. 115). You
> will find some
> of the forms in PED s.v. aya.m and also look in Duroiselle's
> sect. 305. The
> most complete paradigm is probably the following from the
> Saddaniti (12th
> pariccheda):
>
> idaani ida.msaddassa naamikapadamaalaa vuccate:
>
> 1. aya.m : ime
> 2. ima.m : ime
> 3. anena iminaa : ehi ebhi imehi imebhi
> 4. assa imassa : esa.m esaana.m imesa.m imesaana.m
> 5. asmaa imasmaa imamhaa : ehi ebhi imehi imebhi
> 6. assa imassa : esa.m esaana.m imesa.m imesaana.m
> 7. asmi.m imasmi.m amhi imamhi : esu imesu. ida.m pulli"nga.m.
>
> This one is for the masculine gender. The The symbol
> : separates
> the singular from the plural forms.
>
> The pronoun 'ima' (stem form) is included in a special group
> of 27 words
> called sabbanaama-s. Katama and catu also belong to the same
> group.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jim
>
>
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