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cetā

ceta

nt nom pl of ceta (noun); nt instr sg of ceta (noun); nt abl sg of ceta (noun); nt voc sg of ceta (noun); …

1. ceta (nt): name of a country
2. cetas (masc): mind; thought; intention
3. cetā (sandhi): and these
4. cetā (sandhi): and these women
5. cetā (masc): people of Ceta; Cetans

Built from

• ca — prefix · and
  Coordination particle, originally meaning 'and'; related to Sanskrit ca and Latin que (attached enclitic form).
• etā — stem · these (fem. nom. pl)
  Feminine nominative plural of demonstrative eta 'this'; the -ā ending marks feminine plural nominative.

Analysis. ca (conjunction 'and') + etā (feminine nominative plural of eta 'this'); sandhi contraction where final -a of ca and initial e- of etā merge into -ē-, written back as cetā.

Etymology. etā descends from PIE *e-to- (this, that); cognate with Latin is- (in iste, id) and Greek houtos. The demonstrative stem is found throughout Indo-European.

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

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