levelstand

I was thinking about the word understand the other day and it occurred to me that the word understand is a rather strange way of saying that one knows what someone else is talking about. I think it would be better if the word was constructed as levelstand. In saying the word understand, one is using the word under which has an inferior implication allowing the talker or person with whom the words lie, to be in a superior place. I would think then that purely by using the word understand that a person would be meaning almost the exact opposite of our current definition since the two persons are in two different places.
Do you levelstand?
Or we could just throw the word out entirely and stick with comprehend.