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ācikkhanti

ācikkhati

pr 3rd pl of ācikkhati (verb)

1. informs; tells (to); talks about
2. describes; points out; shows (something to)

Built from

• ā — prefix · toward, up to
  Reverses or redirects the action toward the speaker or a goal. Here it turns "knowing" into "making known to".
• cikkh — root · see, know
  Related to Sanskrit cikṣ-, Greek skopein (look), and English cognates like "show" through Indo-European *skew-. The concrete image is perception or disclosure.
• ati — ending · 3rd person plural present
  The present tense marker -ti with plural -a- inserted for 3rd plural form, marking ongoing action.

Etymology. ā- (toward, up to) + √cikkh- (see, know): "reveals to" or "makes known to". The prefix ā- reverses the direction of the root's basic sense. √cikkh- is cognate with Sanskrit cikṣ-, Latin scire (know) via the shared Indo-European root *skew- (see, perceive); English "shire" and German "schieren" (to arrange visibly) share this ancestry.

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

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