विद्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wayd-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to know). Cognate with Latin vidi (to see), Ancient Greek οἶδα (oîda, to know) originally having a digamma at the beginning an reading as voĩda.

Root

विद् (vid)

  1. know, find

Derived terms

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0963
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