-था

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts
  • -ᬣᬵ (Balinese script)
  • -ထာ (Burmese script)
  • -था (Devanagari script)
  • -ਥਾ (Gurmukhi script)
  • -𑌥𑌾 (Grantha script)
  • -ꦡꦴ (Javanese script)
  • -𑂟𑂰 (Kaithi script)
  • -ថា (Khmer script)
  • -ຖາ (Lao script)
  • -ഥാ (Malayalam script)
  • -ᡨᠠᢇ (Manchu script)
  • -𑘞𑘰 (Modi script)
  • -ᠲᠠ᠋᠎ᠠ (Mongolian script)
  • -𑦾𑧑 (Nandinagari script)
  • -𑐠𑐵 (Newa script)
  • -ଥା (Odia script)
  • -ꢢꢵ (Saurashtra script)
  • -𑆡𑆳 (Sharada script)
  • -𑖞𑖯 (Siddham script)
  • -ථා (Sinhalese script)
  • -𑩬𑩛 (Soyombo script)
  • -𑚚𑚭 (Takri script)
  • -த²ா (Tamil script)
  • -ถา (Thai script)
  • -་ཐཱ (Tibetan script)
  • -𑨚𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *-tHaH, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-th₂.[1] Cognate with Old Avestan -𐬚𐬁 (-θā), Old Persian -𐎰𐎠 (-θ-a /⁠-θā⁠/).

Pronunciation

Suffix

-था • (-thā)[2]

  1. forms adverbs of manner

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms suffixed with -था
यथा
सर्वथा

References

  1. ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 1: Einleitung, Terminologie, Lautgesetze, Adverbialendungen, Nominalsuffixe, Anhänge und Indices, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, pages 182-3
  2. ^ William Dwight Whitney (1889), Sanskrit Grammar‎[1], § 1101, page 405
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