Word-building... ABED and SABED

I've been browsing through my Scrabble Word-Building Book, and came across "ABED" and "SABED."

By putting an "s" in front of ABED, (as in someone who is "in bed") , we get "SABED," which means "he savvied."

SABE, according to The Dictionary, is "to savvy," and is conjugated SABED, SABEING and SABES.

SABE is not to be found at dictionary.com.

Without having access to the makers of The DIctionary to ask what they were thinking, it's impossible to know why this is considered a useable word.

"Saber" is Spanish for "to know", and to the Word Detective at least, that's probably how SABE (pronounced sah-bay) came to be included.

http://www.word-detective.com/2012/02/sabe/

SAVVY is a favorite word of Captain Jack Sparrow, or at least it was in the original The Pirates of the Caribbean - the first and best in the series, in my opinion.

It is from the Spanish "saber" -  and has been used in English since the 1700s, according to Dictionary.com (which is why Captain Jack Sparrow would know and use the word).

SAVVY can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.

SAVVY, to understand, is conjugated SAVVIED, SAVVYING, SAVVIES.

One can also say something SAVVILY.

And a person can by SAVVY, SAVVIER, or the SAVVIEST of all.