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taṁ

accusative singular neuter of tat 'that', or nominative singular neuter in older texts

1. it (accusative object)
2. that (neuter)
3. him/her (in construction with third person)

Built from

• ta — root · that, it
  Demonstrative pronoun stem, ancestral in form to English 'that' and Latin 'istud'.
• -m — ending · accusative marker
  Accusative singular masculine/neuter ending in Pali, marking the object of a verb or governed noun.

Etymology. From Indo-European *tod- 'that, it', cognate with Sanskrit tat, Latin istud, Greek to, English that. The form taṁ is the accusative case with -m ending.

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

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