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sightEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- SightEnglish · e-38700-1772
Sight, sīt, n. act of seeing: view: faculty of seeing: that which is seen: a spectacle: an object of especial interest: space within vision: examination: a small opening for looking through at objects: a metal pin on the
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Sight, sīt (Spens.)=Sighed.
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
verb · noun · adjectivecontrarian claim
collect
To bring together, accumulate, infer, or receive; from Latin colligere, literally built with a together-prefix and legere.
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prescient
Having foreknowledge or unusually accurate foresight, borrowed through French and/or directly from Latin praesciens.
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
resolvedprobableposition text
Does intellect literally mean “choosing between”?
The morphology of intellegere is traditionally analyzed through inter- and legere, and selection informs the semantic history. That slogan is not a complete theory of cognition.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Does prescient etymologically mean seeing the future?
No. Its documented Latin structure is prae- “before” plus scīre “to know”: foreknowledge, not a sight-word formation.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 3
RANK 62GRADE Aranked reveal
Prescient is a knowing word, not a seeing word.
Latin prae- plus scīre means to know beforehand. Modern “foresight” is a semantic description, not evidence of a sight-based ancestry.
RANK 112GRADE Aranked reveal
Woman does not contain womb.
Old English wīfman combines wīf, woman or wife, with mann, human being or person; contraction hid the compound in plain sight.
RANK 154GRADE Acontrarian claim
Truth and troth were once one word family in plain sight.
Middle English trouth and Old English trēowþ covered truth, faith, loyalty, and pledged fidelity before the modern words specialized.
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