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chayime

sandhi form: cha + ime

1. these six

Built from

• cha — root · six
  Cardinal number from PIE *sweḱs. Cognates: English six, Latin sex, Greek hex, Sanskrit ṣaṭ. Concrete numerical value marking the sixth member of a set.
• ime — ending · these (plural)
  Nominative plural of idam (this), the demonstrative pronoun. The -me ending marks plural nominative in agreement with the counted noun, here standing for six items or categories.

Analysis. cha (six) + ime (these, plural nominative of idam). A contraction in the nominative plural: the final -a of cha and initial i- of ime elide, leaving cha-ime > chayime.

Etymology. cha from Indo-European *sweḱs (six), cognate with English six, Latin sex, Greek hex. ime is the nominative plural of the demonstrative pronoun idam (this), from *i-smo-, a proto-form of the deictic.

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

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