saṭṭhihāyano

saṭṭhihāyana

masc nom sg of saṭṭhihāyana (adj)

sixty years old

Built from

saṭṭhi — root · sixty
The ordinal numeral sixty; from *sweks (six), seen also in English six, Latin sex, Greek hex.
hāyana — stem · year
Year or age; from hāya. Related to Sanskrit hāyana and English year (cycle of seasons), both from the root meaning 'to turn around'.

Analysis. saṭṭhi (sixty) + hāyana (year); a compound expressing age in years, modelled on the pattern of cardinal + time noun.

Etymology. saṭṭhi is the ordinal form of the number sixty (related to Sanskrit ṣaṣṭi, from Proto-Indo-European *sweks 'six'). hāyana derives from hāya (year), cognate with Sanskrit hāyana and ultimately related to English year (from Proto-Indo-European *yēr- 'to go around', the year as a cycle).

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

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