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Here I address some Pāḷi words I head to deal with while their meaning is for me not directly discoverable nor is it unambiguously following from the texts. They are not dhammā and thus not showstoppers but because of some oddities I could not commit to the known translations.

The inferences made here are based on some grammar and logic but language does not need to work like that; so this doesn't give any guarantee. However since these inferences did tackle the oddities, while bringing up some positives, and since we do have the other renderings, I decided to use these here instead.