witan
Old English
verb
Definitions
- to know, be aware of
- to feel a certain emotion
Etymology
Inherited from *witan inherited from Proto-Germanic *witaną (know, wit) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (know, have seen).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wóyde
Gloss
know, have seen
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
知
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- unwist English
- wiss English
- wist English
- wistest English
- wissen German
- Евровидение Russian
- ви́деть Russian
- вид Russian
- видение Russian
- видный Russian
- видовой Russian
- видоискатель Russian
- дальновидный Russian
- двувидовой Russian
- завидный Russian
- миловидный Russian
- миндалевидный Russian
- очевидный Russian
- стреловидный Russian
- щитовидный Russian
- εἴδομαι Ancient Greek
- οἶδα Ancient Greek
- ᾍδης Ancient Greek
- *swé, *swō Proto-Indo-European
- *weyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *wóyde Proto-Indo-European
- vite Norwegian Bokmål
- *gawissaz Proto-Germanic
- *sw- Proto-Germanic
- *waist Proto-Germanic
- *witaną Proto-Germanic
- *witją Proto-Germanic
- vita Norwegian Nynorsk
- bewitan Old English
- forewitan Old English
- gewiss Old English
- वेत्ति Sanskrit
- biwitten Middle English
- iwis Middle English
- witen Middle English
- vita Old Norse
- vide Danish
- *viděti Proto-Slavic
- *věděti Proto-Slavic
- vita Icelandic
- wizzan Old High German
- vita Faroese
- wizzen Middle High German
- *viz Albanian
- vizull Albanian
- 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *witan gmw-pro
- witan Old Dutch
- witan Old Saxon
- wüsse Alemannic German
- vita Old Swedish
- vetta Westrobothnian
- *wáytti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- видъ Old East Slavic
- wita Old Frisian
- *vidza Proto-Albanian
- wesse Central Franconian
- witå Elfdalian
- veda Scanian
- veer Jutish