Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wītaną - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see; look; look for; find”).

IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.tɑ.nɑ̃/

*wītaną^[1]^[2]

Conjugation of *wītaną (strong class 1)

Proto-West Germanic: *wītan
- Old English: wītan
  - Middle English: wīten, wyten
    - Scots: wyte
    - English: wite
- Old Frisian: wīta
  - Saterland Frisian: wiete
- Old Saxon: wītan
  - Middle Low German: wīten
- Old Dutch: wītan
  - Middle Dutch: witen
    - Dutch: wijten
      - Afrikaans: wyt
    - Limburgish: wiete
- Old High German: wīzan, wīzzan
  - Middle High German: wīzen
    - German: weisen
    - → German Low German: wiesen
- → Old French: *guider, guier (also possibly from Gothic)
  - Middle French: guider
    - French: guider
  - → Middle English: guiden, giden, gyden; guien, gien, gyen
    - English: guide; guy
  - → Occitan: guidar, guizar
  - → Italian: guidare
  - → Spanish: guiar
  - → Portuguese: guiar
Old Norse: víta
- Icelandic: víta
- Old Swedish: vīta
Gothic: *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*weitan)
- ⇒ Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (inweitan)

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wītan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 589
^ Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*wītanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 468