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tassāyeva

ta

3rd person singular masculine nominative pronoun (ta) + genitive singular masculine (tassa) + emphatic particle eva, forming tassāyeva ("of him indeed", "his alone"); contracted sandhi form

1. of him alone
2. his very own
3. his specifically

Analysis. tassa (genitive of ta, "of that/him") + eva (emphatic particle "indeed, alone"); the long ā results from sandhi contraction of final a + initial a

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

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