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teme

temati

reflx pr 1st sg of temati (verb); reflx imp 1st sg of temati (verb); opt 3rd sg of temati (verb); opt 2nd sg of temati (verb); …

1. temati (pr): is wet
2. temeti (pr): wets; moistens; drenches; douses; lit. causing to be wet
3. teme (sandhi): these; those; lit. they these

Built from

• te — root · they, those (plural)
  Nominative plural of ta 'that'; points away or backward. Cognate: Sanskrit ta-, Latin is-, English that.
• ime — root · these, this (plural)
  Nominative plural of ima 'this'; points toward the speaker. Cognate: Sanskrit ima-, English this, these.

Analysis. te (nominative plural masculine of ta, 'that') + ime (nominative plural masculine of ima, 'this'), contracted in sandhi: i-initial vowel merges into the final e of te, yielding teme. Both pronouns point to referents; te looks back or away, ime points near the speaker.

Etymology. Both ta and ima descend from Indo-European *to- and *i-/*id- (demonstrative stems). Sanskrit tat, tā; Latin is, id, iste; English that, this, these. The spatial deixis—ta marking distance, ima marking proximity—remains transparent in the dual reference.

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

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