A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c19.20

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The Hindi series यहां, वहां, जहां, तहां, कहां, is composed of the pronominal bases with ह्, which we are justified in referring to Skr. स्थाने; thus तहां = तत्स्थाने. The dental is preserved in several dialectic forms (Kellogg, p. 265), as Marwari अठै, अठो, ईठै “here,” उठै, etc., “there,” Avadhi एठियां, ओठियां, Bhojpuri एठां, एठाईं. But the Braj इतै, इत, is, I think, by Kellogg rightly referred to the Skr. series अत्र, तत्र, etc. The Bundelkhandi यात्री is probably only another way of pronouncing याईं, as we find in Old-Bengali such words as खसात्रि for खसाईं (modern खसाइया). To sthâne, also, are to be ascribed the P. forms इत्ये, उत्त्ये, etc. S. has not only इति, जिति, etc., which may come from अत्र, यत्र, but इत्ये, which agrees with P., and हिते, which is, I suspect, like हिकिडो “one,” an instance of a ह being put on to the front of a word without any etymological cause.