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tūriyasatehi

tūriyasata

nt instr pl of tūriyasata (noun); nt abl pl of tūriyasata (noun)

1. one hundred musicians

Built from

• tūriya — root · musician, musical instrument
  Sanskrit tūrya; likely onomatopoetic or expressive in origin, denoting sound-making and festive music in ritual and performance contexts.
• sata — root · hundred
  From PIE *sḱtó-. Cognates: Latin centum, Greek hekaton, English hundred, German hundert. The word carries no prefix and reflects the simple cardinal numeral.
• -hi — ending · instrumental/ablative plural
  The -hi ending marks both instrumental plural (expressing agency, accompaniment, means) and ablative plural (expressing origin, separation, source) in neuter nouns.

Analysis. tūriya (music, musical instrument, musician) + sata (hundred); a collective noun for a group of musicians.

Etymology. tūriya derives from Sanskrit tūrya, of uncertain ultimate origin but possibly connected to the semantic field of 'sound' and 'jubilation'; sata is the regular Pali word for 'hundred' from PIE *sḱtó- (cognate with Latin centum, Greek hekaton, English hundred via Germanic). The compound is a straightforward numerical collective.

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

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