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Where does “wīsa” come from?

wīsa (Frankish) comes from Proto-Germanic wīsǭ, from Proto-Indo-European weyd- — to see.

Ancestry of “wīsa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicwīsǭmanner, way
2Proto-Indo-Europeanweyd-to see
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