Etymology
1. c.1374, from O.Fr.
guider "to guide, lead, conduct," from Frank.
*witan "show the way," from P.Gmc.
*wit- "to know" (cf. Ger.
weisen "to show, point out," O.E.
witan "to see"). The Fr. word infl. by O.Prov.
guidar (n.) "guide, leader," from the same source. The noun meaning "one who shows the way" first recorded 1362.
Guidance is first recorded 1590, replacing 15c.
guying. With reference to problems and advice (in school, career, etc.) it is first recorded 1927. In 18c. France, a "for Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide to" book would be a
guid' âne, lit. "guide-ass."
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *wītaną
5. Frankish *wītanbor.
6. Old Occitan guidarbor.
7. Old French guiderbor.
8. Middle English guiden
9. English guide
10. From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *wītan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *wītaną (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). See: Old Occitan '
guidar', Proto-Germanic '
*wītaną'.
Verbs referencing "guide"
Norwegian
guide, Norwegian, nynorsk
guide, Esperanto
gvidi, Spanish
guiar, Ido guidar.