| 1 | English | wisse | To show, teach, inform, guide, direct |
| 2 | Middle English | wissen | to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide,... |
| 3 | Old English | wisian | to show the way, guide, point out |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | wīsijan | to make wise, knowing; to show, instruct |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | wīsijaną | to make wise, knowing; to show, instruct |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |