Where does “vid” come from?
vid (Romanian) 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 (Romanian): empty; void, vacuum
Ancestry of “vid”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | vide | empty; devoid; blank |
| 2 | Old French | vuit | empty |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *vocitum | — |
| 4 | Latin | vacuus | empty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of,... |
| 5 | Latin | -uus | forms adjectives on verbal stems |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-wos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |