Proto-Indo-European

*weyd-

‘to see’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *weyd-.

160 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *weyd-, most familiar first.

• story ← storie ← estorie ← estoire ← historia
• video ← *widēō ← *widéh₁yeti
• guy ← guie ← *wītan ← *wītaną
• history ← historie ← historie ← estorie ← estoire
• idea ← ῐ̓δέᾱ ← ῐ̓δεῖν
• provide ← providen ← prōvideō ← videō ← *widēō
• evidence ← evidentia ← evidens ← videō ← *widēō
• review ← revewe ← reveüe ← revideō ← videō
• visit ← visiten ← visiter ← vīsitō ← vīsō
• advice ← avys ← avis ← vis ← vīsus
• interview ← entreveue ← entreveoir ← veoir ← videō
• guide ← guida ← guidar ← *wītan ← *wītaną

More words from *weyd-

• vision
• witness
• wise
• historic
• ideal
• wisdom
• provision
• visa
• advise
• invisible
• evident
• wit
• idol
• wizard
• historian
• revision
• providence
• visibility
• vista
• wisely
• witty
• revise
• guise
• prudent
• visitation
• steroid
• tabloid
• envious
• envision
• jurisprudence
• unwise
• prudence
• prudential
• revue
• improvise
• druid
• invisibility
• vide
• avis
• purview
• twit
• hypothyroidism
• voyeur
• provident
• proviso
• purveyor
• idyll
• witter
• historicity
• unwisely
• hyperthyroidism
• parathyroid
• vada
• evidential
• steroidal
• trapezoid
• hyoid
• colloid
• eidolon
• weet
• invidious
• providential
• visite
• sigmoid
• thyroxine
• thyroiditis
• eidetic
• eidos
• hypothyroid
• wite
• arrivederci
• wist
• avidya
• pareidolia
• viddy
• ideality
• idolater
• purvey
• visitant
• visuality
• hyperthyroid
• vitz
• prevision
• wost
• vendace
• antithyroid
• euthyroid
• veduta
• anionoid
• anidolic
• arytenoidal
• arytenoiditis
• atwite
• bacteroid
• bacteroidal
• clairvoyante
• cricoidal
• creoloid
• dipleidoscope
• dysthyroid
• dysthyroidism
• eidograph
• eidoloscope
• eidolism
• extrathyroid
• filamentoid
• gwyniad
• historiaster
• historiette
• historicaster
• historiola
• idolomancy
• idolum
• improviso
• interarytenoid
• intrathyroid
• iwis
• mattoid
• meniscoid
• monoeidic
• mylohyoideus
• nonthyroid
• onomatoid
• oroide
• phoneidoscope
• polyeidic
• postcricoid
• previdential
• provedore
• provisor
• proveditor
• precricoid
• pterygoideus
• saccharoid
• subarytenoid
• supracricoid
• thyroidal
• thyroideal
• thyroidization
• thyroidless
• thyroidism
• vedutista
• videte
• videmus
• vidimus
• visitator
• wiseness
• wiselike

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weyd-