इदम्

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *id-ám. From there, the non-nominative-accusative forms are from Proto-Indo-European *id (for example, masculine genitive singular अस्य (asya) < Proto-Indo-European *ésyo). Cognate with Latin id.

The nominative-accusative had undergone thematicization by the Vedic period, where इम्- (im-) and इद्- (id-) are based on the old accusatives in Proto-Indo-European *ím and *íd. Compare अदस् (adas), where other peculiar changes occured. The original neuter इद् (id) survived as an indeclinable particle only in Vedic.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /i.dɐ́m/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈi.d̪ɐm/

इदम् • (idám)

1. this (something near to the speaker)

इदम् • (idám)

1. (chiefly Vedic) here

   Synonym: अत्र (atra)

2. now, just
3. in this manner
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 2.53.31

• Pali: ima
• Prakrit: 𑀅𑀬𑀁 (ayaṃ), 𑀇𑀅𑀁 (iaṃ)

• Monier Williams (1899) “इदम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 165.