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pavedesiṁ

pavedeti

1st person singular aorist (pali: aoristic past) of pavedeti, form pavedesiṁ

1. made known
2. declared
3. revealed
4. announced

Built from

• pa — prefix · forward, forth
  Intensifying prefix marking motion outward and ahead. Cognate with Latin pro-, English forth, for-.
• ved — root · to know
  Root √vid (to know, to see). Cognate with Latin vidēre, English wit. From Indo-European *wid-.
• e — stem · present stem marker
  Thematic vowel marking present tense stem.
• siṁ — ending · 1st person singular aorist
  Aorist ending (perfect past); -siṁ signals 1st person singular speaker acting in past time.

Analysis. pa- (forward, forth) + vedeti (makes known, from √vid 'to know'). The prefix pa- intensifies the simple verb vedeti, marking the action as a distinct, complete utterance stepping forth into the open.

Etymology. √vid 'to know' (cognate with Latin vidēre, English wit in compounds like witness). The prefix pa- works like Latin pro- or Greek pro-; combined with vedeti, it conveys 'knowledge stepped forth' or 'proclaimed knowledge'. In Pali tradition, pavedeti often means to declare the Dhamma or make a teaching known.

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

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