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assajiṁ

assajati

3rd person singular perfect indicative of assajati (or contracted aorist assajiṁ), meaning 'he/she tasted'

1. tasted
2. experienced
3. knew by taste

Built from

• a — prefix · toward, on
  Directional prefix marking approach or ingestion; here, drawing the action inward.
• ssaj — root · taste, know by taste
  From √ad (eat, taste), with gemination and sound assimilation in Pali. The root sense is the direct sensory experience of flavor.
• iṁ — ending · 3rd sg. perfect
  Perfect indicative ending marking completed past action in the 3rd person singular; iṁ is the contracted form.

Etymology. Root √ad (eat, taste) with prefix a- (toward) giving a-√sad; the sense is 'moved toward tasting' — cognate with English 'eat', Latin 'edere', Sanskrit 'atti'. The perfect form assajiṁ uses the i-augment characteristic of Pali perfects.

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

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