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bhāsitassa

bhāsita

nt dat sg of bhāsita (noun); nt gen sg of bhāsita (noun); masc dat sg of bhāsita (pp); nt dat sg of bhāsita (pp); …

1. saying; speech; statement; utterance; talk; words; lit. what was said
2. said; spoken; recited (by)
3. (gram) ?? word
4. speaking; talking; saying; lit. spoken

Built from

• bhās — root · speak, shine forth
  The Indo-European root *bhaH- originally meant 'to shine' or 'appear', and extended to 'speak' as making something manifest or audible. Cognate with Greek phasis 'utterance'.
• ita — ending · past participle marker
  This suffix marks the action as completed or the state as resulting from the action. Here it forms a past participle meaning 'spoken, said'.

Etymology. Past participle of √bhās 'speak', cognate with Sanskrit bhāṣ- and Greek phasis 'utterance, narrative' (from Indo-European *bhaH- 'speak, shine forth'). The root's original sense of shining or appearing underlies the developed sense of speech as bringing something to light.

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

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