Where does “wet” come from?

wet (Middle English) comes from Middle English weten, from Old English wǣtan, from Proto-Germanic wētijaną, from Indo-European *wed-.

wet (Middle English): wet, watery; wet, rainy; liquid, fluid

Definitions

  1. wet, watery; wet, rainy; liquid, fluid

Ancestry of “wet”, step by step

wet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English weten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishwetento wet
2Old Englishwǣtanto wet, moisten, water
3Proto-Germanicwētijanąto wet; make wet
4Indo-European*wed-—

via Old English wǣt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishwǣtwet, moist, rainy

Words derived from “wet”

Every word from Indo-European *wed- →Every word from Proto-Germanic wētijaną →Every word from Old English wǣtan →