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addasa

aor 3rd sg of addasa (verb); aor 2nd sg of addasa (verb)

1. saw
2. you saw; you have seen

Built from

• ad — prefix · aorist marker
  This prefix marks the simple past tense in the aorist stem; it has become phonetically fused with the root and serves a purely grammatical function in conjugation.
• dasa — root · see, view
  From √dṛś (Indo-European *derḱ-), meaning to perceive with the eyes; the root is ancient and appears across Indo-European languages in the sense of vision and sight.

Analysis. ad- + dasa, where ad- is the aorist stem prefix and dasa is the root √dṛś "see"; the form shows the simple aorist formation typical of root verbs in Pali.

Etymology. √dṛś (see, look) is the Indo-European root *derḱ- "to see, observe", cognate with Sanskrit darśati "sees", Greek δέρκομαι (dérkomai) "I see", and English "dark" (originally "lacking light, not-seen"). The prefix ad- (ad + √dṛś) represents the ancient aorist marker in Pali, fused with the root.

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

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