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sa

ta

masc nom sg of ta (pron); masc voc sg of sa (letter); masc voc sg of sa (adj); nt voc sg of sa (adj); …

1. ta (pron): that
2. sa (prefix): with; having; affected with
3. sa (pron): one; that; it; he
4. sa (pron): own; one's own; one's own possession
5. sa (adj): self-; personal-
6. sa (suffix): (gram) sa suffix; used to form desiderative verbs
7. sa (letter): (gram) letter s; 36th letter of the alphabet; dental consonant
8. sa (masc): dog

Etymology. Proto-Indo-European *so-, the ancient demonstrative pronoun, cognate with Sanskrit tad, Greek ho/hē/to, Latin is/ea/id, and English that. The masculine form sa preserves the older stem before it was levelled to ta in Pali's nom/acc sg.

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

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