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ṭhassatīti

ṭhassati

3rd singular future indicative

1. will stand; will stay; will remain; will last

Built from

• ṭhass- — stem · will stand
  Future stem formed from √ṭhā with the future infix -ssa- (< *-sya-, regular future formation in Indo-European languages). The vowel is lengthened in the future stem.
• -ati — ending · 3rd singular
  Present/future active indicative 3rd singular ending -ati, here marking the subject as third person singular and the tense as future.
• iti — root · thus, quote marker
  An indeclinable particle (iti) functioning as a quotation mark or statement marker, literally "thus"; appears at the end of direct speech or reported thought to frame what precedes it.

Analysis. ṭhassati (future stem) + iti (quotation marker "thus"); the compound marks quoted speech or a report of what will happen: "he/she/it will stand—thus" or more naturally in English, "it will remain", "it stands [the case] that".

Etymology. ṭhassati is the future of the root √ṭhā "to stand, remain"; cognate with Sanskrit sthā- (sthāti "stands"), Greek stásis (στάσις, "standing, position"), Latin status and stāre, English stand. The root is old Indo-European *steh₂- "to stand, set up". The future marker -ssa- is regular in Pali (compare bhavissati "will be" from bhavati), appearing also in Sanskrit -sya-.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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