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sacchikatvā

absolutive (ind. aor.) of sacchikaroti

1. having personally experienced; having realized for oneself; lit. having personally done

Built from

• sac — root · see, witness
  The root underlying sakkhī (witness); the sense is 'perceived by one's own eyes'.
• khi — stem · witness
  Nominalization forming sakkhī; the word carries the sense of direct, personal perception.
• katvā — ending · having done (absolutive)
  The absolutive suffix marks a completed action antecedent to the main verb, expressing 'having done X, then Y happened'.

Analysis. sacchi- (one's own, personally) + -katvā (absolutive suffix); sacchi is the instrumental of sakkhī (witness, evidence), used adverbially to mean 'by one's own experience, personally'.

Etymology. sacchi from sakkhī (witness, eyewitness), derived from √sakkh- (to see, perceive); the concrete sense is 'by the eye of one's own experience'. The root may be related to Sanskrit sākṣī (witness), though the etymology is uncertain. The absolutive suffix -katvā (-tvā after a vowel) marks the word as expressing an action completed before the main verb.

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

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