Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/witan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *witaną.

Verb

*witan[1]

to know

Inflection

*wait, *waist, *witun, *wissā, *witan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: witan, weotan
- Middle English: witen, witten
  - Scots: wit
  - English: wit, weet, wot
Old Frisian: wita
- Saterland Frisian: wiete
- West Frisian: wite, witte
Old Saxon: witan
- Middle Low German: wēten, wetten
  - Low German: weten, wetten, wieten
Old Dutch: witan
- Middle Dutch: wēten
  - Dutch: weten
    - Afrikaans: weet
  - Limburgish: weite, wiete
Old High German: wizzan
- Middle High German: wizzen
  - Alemannic German: wüsse
  - Central Franconian: wesse, wösse, wosse
    Hunsrik: wisse
    Luxembourgish: wëssen
  - East Central German: [Term?]
    Vilamovian: wysa
  - East Franconian: [Term?]
  - German: wissen
  - Rhine Franconian: [Term?]
  - Yiddish: וויסן‎ (visn)
→ Old French: guier
→ Old Occitan: guidar
- Catalan: guidar
- Occitan: guidar
- → Asturian: guiar
- → Italian: guidare
  - ⇒ Italian: guida
    - → Basque: gida
- → Spanish: guiar
- → Old Portuguese: guiar
  - Galician: guiar
  - Portuguese: guiar
- → Old French: guide
  - French: guide
    - → Danish: guide
    - → Romanian: ghid
    - → Russian: гид (gid)
  - Norman: dgide (Jersey)
  - → Middle English: giden, gide
    - Scots: guide
    - English: guide
      - → Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
      - → Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
      - → Norwegian: guide
      - → Swedish: guide

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*witan”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*witan”