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sopi

ta

pronoun with emphatic particle api; nominative singular masculine

1. ta (pron): that
2. sa (pron): own; one's own; one's own possession
3. sa (adj): self-; personal-
4. sa (letter): (gram) letter s; 36th letter of the alphabet; dental consonant
5. so (pron): he; that person; that thing
6. so (ind): (emphatic usage; referring to what has just been said); lit. that
7. so (suffix): as; according to; by way of; by means of
8. so (suffix): (gram) by; in x ways
9. …

Built from

• so — root · he, that
  Demonstrative pronoun, nominative singular masculine. From PIE *so-, the same root as English 'that' and Latin 'is'.
• pi — ending · even, also
  Enclitic emphatic particle (api), reinforcing the pronoun with focus: 'he too', 'that very one'. Often attached to other words for emphasis.

Analysis. so (he, that) + api (also, even, indeed) = 'he too', 'that very one'; the emphatic particle api reinforces the pronoun's reference to what precedes.

Etymology. so from Indo-European *so- (demonstrative stem), cognate with English 'that', Latin 'is', Greek 'ho'. api is an older emphatic particle, possibly from *apo- 'off, away' (hence 'distinctly, indeed').

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

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