Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySomeone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain. · A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. · A sign that guides people; guidepost. · Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *wéydeti Proto-Germanic *wītaną Frankish *wītanbor. Old Occitan guidar Old Occitan guidabor. Old French guidebor. Middle English guide English guide c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English wītan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.
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