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tehi

ta

masc instr pl of ta (pron); nt instr pl of ta (pron); masc abl pl of ta (pron); nt abl pl of ta (pron); …

1. ta (pron): that
2. ta (letter): (gram) letter t; 24th letter of the alphabet; dental sibilant
3. tehi (pron): with them; with those; by them
4. tehi (pron): than them; from them

Built from

• ta — root · that
  Demonstrative pronoun stem. Cognate with Sanskrit tá-, Greek to- (article), Latin is-te. Common across Indo-European languages as the basis of the definite article.
• -hi — ending · instr/abl pl
  Instrumental and ablative plural ending < *-bhis. Marks 'with, by, from' in plural. Cognate with Sanskrit -bhis and related to English 'by'.

Etymology. ta is the demonstrative pronoun 'that'; cognate with Sanskrit tá, Greek to (article), Latin is-te (that). The instr pl ending -hi (< *-bhis) is the instrumental plural marker, cognate with Sanskrit -bhis and English 'be-' in Germanic pronouns.

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

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