Where does “wita” come from?

wita (Lower Sorbian) comes from Lower Sorbian witaś, from Proto-Slavic vitati, from Proto-Indo-European weyh₁- — to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute.

wita (Lower Sorbian): third-person singular present of witaś

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present of witaś

Ancestry of “wita”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lower Sorbianwitaśto greet, welcome
2Proto-Slavicvitatito live, dwell; to welcome, greet
3Proto-Indo-Europeanweyh₁-to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute
Every word from Proto-Indo-European weyh₁- →Every word from Proto-Slavic vitati →Every word from Lower Sorbian witaś →