Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/witan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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, wete, weten, wetyn, wite, witenn, witten, wyett, wyt, wyte, wyten; woten
  - English: wit, weet
  - Scots: wit
Old Frisian: wita
- Saterland Frisian: wíete
- West Frisian: wite, witte
Old Saxon: witan
- Middle Low German: wēten, wetten
  - German Low German: 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
  - Cimbrian: bizzan
  - Central Franconian: wesse, wösse, wosse
    Hunsrik: wisse
    Luxembourgish: wëssen
  - German: wissen
  - Vilamovian: wysa
  - Yiddish: וויסן (visn)
→ Old French: guier (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Occitan: guidar
- Catalan: guidar
- Occitan: guidar
- → Basque: gidatu
- → Asturian: guiar
- → Old French: guide (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: guidare
- → Piedmontese: guidé
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: guiar
  - Galician: guiar
  - Portuguese: guiar
- → Spanish: guiar

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”

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[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”