Where does “vid” come from?

vid (Haitian Creole) comes from French vide, from Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, from Latin vacuus, from Latin -uus, from Proto-Italic *-wos, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.

vid (Haitian Creole): empty

Definitions

  1. empty

Ancestry of “vid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvideempty; devoid; blank
2Old Frenchvuitempty
3Vulgar Latin*vocitum
4Latinvacuusempty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of,...
5Latin-uusforms adjectives on verbal stems
6Proto-Italic*-wos
7Proto-Indo-European-wósCreates adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -wósEvery word from Latin -uusEvery word from Latin vacuus
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