Where does “gāzveidīgs” come from?
gāzveidīgs (Latvian) comes from Latvian veids, from Lithuanian viest, from Proto-Balto-Slavic weiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European wéydos, from Proto-Indo-European weyd- — to see.
gāzveidīgs (Latvian): gaseous
Ancestry of “gāzveidīgs”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latvian | veids | form; form, type, kind, mode; external... |
| 2 | Lithuanian | viest | to perceive, to sense, to see |
| 3 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | weiˀdas | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wéydos | seeing, image |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |