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itipime

iti

indeclinable particle; itipime is a contraction of iti + pi + me, appearing at the end of direct speech in the canon

1. thus
2. in this way
3. so (marking the end of quoted speech)

Built from

• iti — root · thus, so
  Ancient deictic particle marking the end of speech; cognate with Latin ita.
• pi — root · indeed, also
  Emphatic particle; often untranslated or rendered as emphasis on the preceding word.
• me — root · my, to me
  Enclitic possessive or dative pronoun, first person; here likely possessive or emphatic.

Analysis. iti (thus) + pi (indeed, also, even) + me (my, to me) — a formulaic closure in Pali narrative marking the speaker's words as finished, often with the sense "thus have I heard" or "so speaks [the character]"

Etymology. iti is an ancient deictic particle cognate with Latin ita "in that way" and related to Sanskrit iti, from Indo-European *i-ti (pointing particle); it marks the boundaries of reported speech in Indo-European languages generally

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

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