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tatthevantaradhāyi

sandhi contraction: tattha + eva + antaradhāyi (past participle of antaradhāyati)

1. disappeared right there; vanished on the spot

Built from

• tattha — root · there, that place
  Locative singular of tad (that); shows the old locative ending -ha, cognate with Sanskrit tatra.
• eva — prefix · just, precisely, emphatic
  Emphatic particle reinforcing the preceding word; no certain cognate in European languages.
• anta — prefix · across, against
  Prefix meaning "against" or "crossing over," from the sense of moving to the other side or end. Cognate with Sanskrit anti.
• radhā — root · vanish, disappear
  Root √dhā (place, put) with the a-grade; here with the sense of "put away" or "removed."
• yi — ending · past participle
  Past participle ending (-i), marking the perfected action of disappearing.

Analysis. tattha (locative: "there, in that place") + eva (emphatic particle: "just, precisely") + antaradhāyi (past participle of antaradhāyati "disappeared"). The contraction shows the elision of initial 'a' in antaradhāyi after eva, giving evantara- for eva + antaradhāyi. Literally "in that very spot disappeared."

Etymology. antaradhāyi is formed from anti (a prefix meaning "against, across") + √dhā ("place, put"); the compound's sense is "put away across, vanish." The prefix anti- relates to Sanskrit anti and gives the sense of crossing over or removal. tattha is the locative of tad ("that"), cognate with Sanskrit tad, English "that"; eva is an emphatic particle of obscure origin, cognate with Sanskrit eva.

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

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