Where does “guidance” come from?
Guidance comes from English guide plus the suffix -ance from French, derived from Latin -antia, ultimately tracing through Old Occitan guida and guidar to Proto-Germanic wītaną and Proto-Indo-European weyd-.
guidance (English): The act or process of guiding; Advice or...
Definitions
- The act or process of guiding; Advice or...
Ancestry of “guidance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Guide | — |
| 2 | Middle English | guide | — |
| 3 | Old French | guide | a guide |
| 4 | Occitan | guida | — |
| 5 | Occitan | guidar | — |
| 6 | Frankish | wītan | to show the way, lead; to accuse, to blame |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *witaną | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wóyde | to have seen, to know |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |
Words derived from “guidance”