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sāpi

ta

feminine nominative singular pronoun (sandhi form: sāpi)

1. ta (pron): that
2. sa (pron): own; one's own; one's own possession
3. sa (adj): self-; personal-
4. sa (letter): (gram) letter s; 36th letter of the alphabet; dental consonant
5. sa (masc): dog
6. sā (pron): she; that; it
7. sāpi (sandhi): even that; or that; that is just

Built from

• sā — root · she; that
  Feminine nominative singular of the demonstrative pronoun; cognate with Sanskrit sā, Latin ea (she, that). The root is ancient Indo-European *so- (that, he/she/it) — shared with English that, German das, Latin is/id.
• api — prefix · even, also; or
  An enclitic particle meaning 'even', 'also', or marking alternatives and disjunction. Cognate with Sanskrit api, possibly related to the prefix a- (negation/privation) in the sense of 'not-away' > 'even then'.

Analysis. sā (feminine pronoun, nominative singular) + api (even, also, or) — 'even that' or 'that too'; used to mark alternatives or to emphasize a point in narrative and logical contexts.

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

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