Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c8.77

c8.77

¹⁰ Prof. Lassen traces these to the root अस्, but इत्था to the Skr. थ to which ति is, he says, prefixed because the previous vowel must have been pronounced with some accent. But considering that many forms of अस् are used as terminations it is more natural to take this also as such a form.