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assumha

assosi

aor 1st pl of assosi (verb)

1. assumha (aor): we heard
2. assosi (aor): heard

Built from

• a — prefix · toward, hearing-coming
  Prefix marking direction toward the speaker, bringing the action of hearing into the listener's experience.
• s — prefix · reduplication marker
  Reduplication of the root's initial consonant, marking the aorist tense as characteristic of past perfective aspect in Pali.
• su — root · hear, listen
  Sanskrit śru-; cognate with English "shear" (to perceive by separating sound from silence) and Latin aurīs (ear). The root denotes auditory perception.
• mha — ending · 1st plural aorist
  Aorist marker -a- + plural ending -mha, indicating the first person plural subject ("we") in the aorist tense.

Etymology. √su (hear, listen) with prefix a- (toward) + s-reduplication of the aorist stem. Related to Sanskrit śru- (hear; cognate with English "shear" in the sense of perceiving auditory separation), and Latin aurīs (ear). The prefix a- reverses or draws the action toward the speaker: hearing comes toward one.

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

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