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tassa
ta
masc dat sg of ta (pron); nt dat sg of ta (pron); masc gen sg of ta (pron); nt gen sg of ta (pron); …
- ta (pron): that
- ta (letter): (gram) letter t; 24th letter of the alphabet; dental sibilant
- tassa (pron): to him; for him; to that; for that
- tassa (pron): of that; his; its
- tassa (pron): when he; when it; lit. of that
- tassa (ind): therefore; thus; so; because of that; regarding that; lit. of that
Built from
- ta — root · that (demonstrative)
Demonstrative pronoun stem from PIE *to-. Survives in all oblique cases built on this root (acc. taṁ, inst. tena, dat. tassa, abl. tasmā, gen. tassa, loc. tasmiṁ, nom. so/sā/taṁ). The concrete sense is pointing-toward; the abstract sense 'that one' emerges from direction and deixis.
- -ssa — ending · dative/genitive singular
The enclitic genitive/dative ending -ssa marks possession ('of that, his') and indirect object ('to/for that'). It derives from Proto-Indo-European *-syo, the same root as Latin -si in demonstratives (iste, iste) and Sanskrit -sya.
Etymology. From Proto-Indo-European *to- (demonstrative root), cognate with English "the", "that", Latin "iste", "is", Greek "to", "ta" (article). The demonstrative stem ta- is ancestral to all Pali oblique cases.