Where does “wit” come from?

wit (Middle English) comes from Old English wit, from Proto-Germanic wit, from Proto-Germanic *wet, from Proto-Indo-European wéy, from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ — I.

wit (Middle English): First-person dual pronoun: we twain, the two of...

Definitions

  1. First-person dual pronoun: we twain, the two of...

Ancestry of “wit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishwitwe two; nominative dual of iċ
2Proto-GermanicwitAlternative form of *wet
3Proto-Germanic*wet—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwéywe
5Proto-Indo-Europeanéǵh₂I

Words derived from “wit”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European éǵh₂ →Every word from Proto-Indo-European wéy →Every word from Proto-Germanic *wet →