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tamhā

ta

masc abl sg of ta (pron); nt abl sg of ta (pron); masc abl sg of ta (letter)

1. ta (pron): that
2. ta (letter): (gram) letter t; 24th letter of the alphabet; dental sibilant
3. tamhā (pron): from that

Built from

• ta — root · that
  Demonstrative pronoun stem, from PIE *to-. Cognate with Latin is-te 'this' and English that.
• mhā — ending · from (ablative)
  Ablative case ending; originally -smā, here appearing as -mhā after sandhi. Marks origin, cause, or agent, retaining its concrete sense of 'away from'.

Etymology. Proto-Indo-European *to-, the same root as Latin is-te (with -t- stem) and English that. The ablative case ending -smā (here reduced to -hā in Pali sandhi) means 'from, by, because of': the concrete sense is separation or origin.

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

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