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 (Eifel)

      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