In french "comprendre", from "prendre" — to take and com, a latin root that means with, so litteraly, to take with/within you. An interesting thing to note is

In french "comprendre", from "prendre" — to take and com, a latin root that means with, so litteraly, to take with/within you. An interesting thing to note is that "hypothesis" has almost the same litteral meaning as "understand". "hypo" means under/above and thesis means "to put, to place something" or "position"