savoir
French
verb
Definitions
- to know (something)
- to know how (to do something)
- to be able to, to be apt to (especially in the negative conditional)
- to find out
Etymology
Inherited from Old French savoir inherited from Latin *sapeo, *sapēre, sapĕre, sapio (taste) derived from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p- (research, try).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₁p-
Gloss
research, try
Concept
Semantic Field
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- savantism English
- *sapeo, *sapēre Latin
- *sapeō Latin
- *sapēre Latin
- homō Latin
- insipientia Latin
- sapere Latin
- sapere, sapio Latin
- sapidus Latin
- sapientia Latin
- sapiēns Latin
- sapiō Latin
- sapiō, sapere, sapio Latin
- sapor Latin
- sapĕre, sapio Latin
- sapōrem, sapor Latin
- sibus Latin
- īnsipidus Latin
- sapere Italian
- assavoir French
- idiot savant French
- sabedor Spanish, Castilian
- saber Spanish, Castilian
- *seh₁p- Proto-Indo-European
- *sep-, *seh₁p- Proto-Indo-European
- saber Portuguese
- insipient Old French
- nonsavoir Old French
- saveir Old French
- savoir Old French
- saber Catalan, Valencian
- saberut Catalan, Valencian
- savar Ido
- saveskar Ido
- sçavoir Middle French
- saupre Occitan
- saber Old Occitan
- sevön Volapük
- sabe Kabuverdianu
- saveur Walloon
- saivoi Bourguignon
- sapè Corsican
- savêr Franco-Provençal
- savair Gallo
- sabir Sabir