Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually. · To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating. · To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of. · To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
The sense or faculty by which objects are perceived through the agency of light; the sense by which we see. · An act, instance, opportunity or possibility of seeing; the perception of objects by the eye; view (see also idiomatic expressions such as in sight, out of sight, catch sight of, etc.) · Something seen. · Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-der. Proto-Germanic *sehwaną Proto-West Germanic *sehwan Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-West Germanic *-þi Proto-West Germanic *sihti Old English sihþ Middle English sighte English sight From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t. Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian gazicht (“sight, vision; pupil”), Dutch gezicht (“face; sight, vision”), zicht (“sight, vision”), German Gesicht (“face; sight, vision”), Sicht (“view; sight; visibility”), Luxembourgish Gesiicht (“face”), Siicht (“view; sight”), Yiddish געזיכט (gezikht, “face”), Danish sigt (“sight; visibility”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sikt (“visibility”), Swedish sikt (“visibility”), sikte (“sight”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsighteenm
- Inherited-form mentionsihþang · something seen; vision
- Inherited-form mention*sihtigmw-pro · seeing, sight
- Cognate mentiongazichtcim · sight, vision; pupil
- Cognate mentiongezichtnl · face; sight, vision
- Cognate mentionGesichtde · face; sight, vision
- Cognate mentionGesiichtlb · face
- Cognate mentionגעזיכטyi · face
- Cognate mentionsigtda · sight; visibility
- Cognate mentionsiktsv · visibility
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