VIDEO
This Indo-European phrase means both "to see" and "to know".
Sanskrit "ऋग्वेद (Rigveda)" means "the knowledge of Hymns" and vedic times mean "the times of knowledge". That is because "veda" simply means "knowledge" just like in Slavic languages or in Scanian language.
WORDS MEANING TO SEE
VID- WID-
Mycenaean Greek: wi-de (wide)
Latin: videō, vidēre
Italic South Picene: videtas ("you see")
Old Church Slavonic: видѣти (viděti)
Slovene: vídeti
Czech: vidět
Russian: ви́деть (vídetʹ)
Slovak: vidieť
Serbo-Croatian: ви̏дјети, ви̏дети, vȉdjeti, vȉdeti
Belarusian: ві́дзець (vídzjecʹ)
Kashubian: widzec
Polish: widzieć
Upper Sorbian: widźeć
Aromanian: videari
Sardinian: vìdere
English: vide, video
Ido: vidar
Sanskrit: अविदत् (ávidat)
Old Avestan: vīdat̰
Rusyn: відїти (vidjity)
Bulgarian: ви́дя (vídja)
Macedonian: ви́ди (vídi)
Istriot: vidi
Ukrainian: ви́діти (výdity)
Latin: vīdī ("have seen")
Sicilian: vìdiri, vidiri, viriri
Old Church Slavonic: видъ ⰲⰹⰴⱏ (vidŭ) ("sight, view")
Old East Slavic: видъ (vidŭ) ("sight, view")
Belarusian: від (vid) ("sight, view")
Russian: вид (vid) ("sight, view")
Ukrainian: вид (vyd) ("sight, view")
Bulgarian: вид (vid) ("sight, view")
Macedonian: вид (vid) ("sight, view")
Serbo-Croatian: ви̑д vȋd ("sight, view")
Chakavian: vȋd ("sight, view")
Slovene: vȋd ("sight, view")
Czech: vid ("sight, view")
Slovak: vid ("sight, view")
Polish: widok ("sight, view")
Old Prussian: widdai ("view, sight, image, picture")
BI-
Sardinian: biri, bìdere, bìere
VED-
Sanskrit: वेत्तृ (véttṛ), वेदितृ (véditṛ) ("one who has seen, one who knows, witness")
Occitan: véder
Neapolitan: vedè
Piedmontese: vëdde
Romanian: vedea, vedere
Aromanian: ved
Corsican: vede
Dalmatian: vedar
Istro-Romanian: ved, vedu
Italian: vedere
Venetian: védar, véder
Old French: vedeir
Latvian: viedēt
Lithuanian: veizdėti
Latvian: veids ("face, appearance, look")
Lithuanian: veidas ("face, appearance, look")
Ancient Greek: εἶδον (eîdon) (from weidon?)
- to see, behold, perceive
- to look at, observe
- to see a person, to meet, speak with them
- to see, experience, become acquainted with
- to look at or towards
- to see mentally, to perceive
- to examine, investigate
VER- WER-
Old Portuguese: veer
Portuguese: ver
Galician: ver
Gallo: vér'
Leonese: vere
Spanish: ver
Asturian: ver
Franco-Provençal: vêre
Old French: veoir, veir
Occitan: veire
BER-
Mirandese: ber
VES-
Old Occitan: vezer
Occitan: véser
Romansch: vesair, veser
VEL-
Extremaduran: vel
VIN- WIN-
Sanskrit: विन्दति (vindáti) ("to know, understand, find, to mind, observe")
Middle Persian: wyndynd
Parthian: wyndyd
Old Avestan: vīnastī
Younger Avestan: vinasti
Greek: βίντεο (vínteo)
BIN-
Kurdish: bîn-
WIZ-
Lower Sorbian: wiźeś
Latin: vīsor ("one who has seen, one who knows, witness")
Boeotian Greek: ϝίστωρ (wístōr) ("one who has seen, one who knows, witness")
IS-
Ancient Greek: ἴστωρ (ístōr), ἵστωρ (hístōr) ("one who has seen, one who knows, witness")
VA-
Lithuanian: vaizdas ("view, sight, image, picture")
Tourangeau: vœ
Romansch: vaseir, vaser, vzair
VO-
French: voir
Bourguignon: voi
Friulian: viodi
Catalan: vore
VEY-
Walloon: vey
Aragonese: veyer
Romansch: veir
English: view
Norman: veî
BEY-
Aragonese: beyer
VEU
Catalan: veure
VIR-
Walloon: vir
WORDS MEANING TO KNOW
VED- WED-
Avestan: vaēd, vaēδ
Old Church Slavonic: вѣдѣти (věděti)
Old East Slavic: вѣдѣти (věděti)
Slovene: védeti
Serbo-Croatian: vedeti (Kajkavian)
Slovak: vedieť
Czech: vědět
Kashubian: wiedzec
Polish: wiedzieć
Upper Sorbian: wědźeć
Polabian Drevani: wedanze
Russian: ве́дать (védatʹ)
Belarusian: ве́даць (vjédacʹ)
Scanian: veda
Lithuanian: veiždėti
VET- WET-
Sanskrit: वेत्ति (vetti)
Middle Low German: wēten, wetten
German Low German: wetten, wieten
Middle Dutch: wēten
Dutch: weten
Afrikaans: weet
German Low German: Weet ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Swedish: vett ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Westrobothnian: vet ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Old Swedish: vēt ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Saterland Frisian: wiete
Limburgish: weite, wiete
WIES-
Polish: wiesz ("you know")
Saterland Frisian: wies
German Low German: wies
Westmünsterländisch: wiese
WES-
Central Franconian: wesse
Luxembourgish: wëssen
Lower Sorbian: wěźeś
WEIS
German: weise
Plautdietsch: weis
Sauerländisch: weyse
VID-
Ukrainian: ві́дати (vídaty)
Sanskrit: विद्यात् (vidyāt) ("one should know, it should be understood")
Avestan: vid, viδ
Persian: نوید (navid) ("good news")
VIT- WIT-
Old English: witan, ƿitan
Old Frisian: wita
Old Saxon: witan
Old Dutch: witan
Middle English: witen, witten
Scots: wit
English: wit, weet
West Frisian: wite, witte
Old Norse: vita
Icelandic: vita
Faroese: vita
Norwegian: vite, vete, vita, veta
Old Swedish: vita
Swedish: veta
Old Danish: witæ
Danish: vide
Elfdalian: witå
Gutnish: vite
Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan)
Old English: witer, witter
Old Norse: vitr
Icelandic: vitur
Old Swedish: viter, wittur
Swedish: vitter
Old English: witt, ġewitt, ġewit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Middle English: witt, witte, wit, wyt ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Scots: quyt, wit, wyt ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
English: wit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Old Frisian: witt, wit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Middle Low German: wit, wite, wete ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Middle Dutch: witte, wit, wet ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Dutch: wit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Middle High German: witze ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
German: Witz ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Finnish: vitsi ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
German Low German: Witz ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Saterland Frisian: Wits ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Luxembourgish: Witz ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Old Norse: vit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Icelandic: vit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Faroese: vit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Norwegian: vit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Old Swedish: vit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Danish: vid ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (witi), 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti) ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Phrygian: wit-
Old Saxon: gewitt, giwit ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
ID-
Ancient Greek: ἰδέᾱ (idéā) ("look, appearance, form") (from videa?)
---> English: idea
---> French: idée
---> German: Idee
---> Greek: ιδέα (idéa)
---> Latin: idea
---> Russian: иде́я (idéja)
---> Swedish: idé
---> Polish: idea
VIS- WIS-
---> Finnish: viisas
---> Northern Sami: viissis
---> Southern Sami: vijsies
Old English: wīs, ƿis
Middle English: wis, wys
Scots: wis, wise
English: wise
English: wizard
Old Frisian: wīs
Old Frisian: wys, wiis
Old Saxon: wīs
Middle Low German: wīs
Old Dutch: wīs
Middle Dutch: wijs
Old High German: wīs
Middle High German: wīse
Old High German: wīsi
Proto-Norse: wisaz
Old Norse: víss
Icelandic: vís
Faroese: vísur
Norwegian: vis
Old Swedish: vīs
Swedish: vis
Danish: vis
Old High German: wizzan
Old High German: wizzi, gewizzi ("knowledge, reason, understanding")
Middle High German: wizzen
German: wissen
Vilamovian: wysa
Sauerländisch: wīse
WUS-
Alemannic German: wüsse
Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: wuise, wuis
Sauerländisch: wüse, wuise
WOS-
Central Franconian: wösse, wosse
FIS-
Welsh: gwys
Old Irish: fis
Manx: fys
FIOS-
Irish: fios
Scottish Gaelic: fios
G-
---> Korean: 가이드 (gaideu)
---> Japanese: ガイド (gaido)
---> Basque: gida
Breton: gouzout
Cornish: godhvos
Old Welsh: gwybot
Welsh: gwybod
Old Irish: ro·finnadar
Old Armenian: գիտեմ (gitem)
Old Armenian: գտանեմ (gtanem)
Norwegian: guide
Swedish: guide
Old French: guier
Old Occitan: guidar
Catalan: guidar
Occitan: guidar
Asturian: guiar
Italian: guidare
Italian: guida
Spanish: guiar
Old Portuguese: guiar
Galician: guiar
Portuguese: guiar
Old French: guide
French: guide
Danish: guide
Romanian: ghid
Russian: gid (gid)
Norman: dgide
Middle English: giden, gide
Scots: guide
English: guide
O-
Ancient Greek: οἶδα (oîda)
Article created on the 21st of January 2019.