Adûnaic
saphad-
verb. to understand
Derivations
- √Ad. SAPHAD “understand” ✧ SD/421
Element in
- Ad. sapthân “wise man, wizard”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √Ad. SAPHAD > usaptha [usapʰda] > [usapʰtʰa] > [usapʰθa] > [usafθa] ✧ SD/421
A verb attested only in the form usaphda “he understood”, an aorist inflection with the 3rd person masculine pronominal prefix u- (SD/421). Archaically its aorist form underwent phonetic changes to become †saptha, but it was later reformed to be consistent with other inflections of the verb (such as the past tense ✱sapphada).