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tappaccayā

ind. (ablative of tappaccaya, instrumental sg. often used as indeclinable)

1. due to that; on account of that; because of that; lit. from condition of that

Built from

• ta- — root · that
  Demonstrative pronoun base; same root as tathā (so, thus). Related to the widespread Indo-European demonstrative *to- (Latin is, tu; English the).
• paccaya — stem · condition, ground, cause
  Compound of paṭi- (back, returning) + √i (go). The concrete image is 'that which comes back or meets a condition'; causality is condition-dependence.
• -ā — ending · ablative
  Ablative case marker expressing 'from, because of, due to'. Here fossilized in the indeclinable form tappaccayā, which has become an adverbial conjunction.

Analysis. ta- (that) + paccaya (condition, ground, reason) + -ā (ablative ending); lit. 'from the condition of that', a fossilized case form expressing causality.

Etymology. paccaya itself contains paṭi- (back, against, in return) + √i (go), so 'that which comes back to meet a condition'; paṭi- is cognate with Greek προ- (pros, 'toward, against'). The ablative -ā denotes 'from, out of'.

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

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