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Interview comes from Old French entreveue, past participle of entrevëoir ‘to see one another’ (entre- + vëoir ‘to see’), from Latin videō, from PIE *weyd-.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyd-¹‘to see’reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*widēō¹reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvideō¹‘to see’
4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400vëoir¹‘to see’
5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400entrevëoir¹‘to see one another’
6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400entreveue¹
7. Englishearliest quotation 1624interview¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English interview
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “To be present at an interview, as that famous…”.