Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To travel.
noun
A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another. · A means to enter or leave a place. · A roughly-defined geographical area. · Distance in general
intj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryYes; it is true; it is possible.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *wegaz Proto-West Germanic *weg Old English weġ Middle English wey English way From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese and Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwayenm
- Inherited-form mentionweġang
- Inherited-form mention*weggmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wegazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*weǵʰ-ine-pro
- Doublet mentionvoeen
- Doublet mentionviaen
- Cognate mentionwaifrr
- Cognate mentionWaistq · way
- Cognate mentionweify · road; way
- Cognate mentionWäächgmw-cfr · way
- Cognate mentionbegecim
- Cognate mentionwegnl · way
- Cognate mentionWegnds · way
- Cognate mentionwaegli · way
- Cognate mentionWeelb · way
- Cognate mentionbemhn · way
- Cognate mentionוועגyi · way
- Cognate mentionvejda · way
- Cognate mentionvegnb
- Cognate mentionvegnn · way
- Cognate mentionvägsv · way
- Cognate mention𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃got · path; road
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