u̯el-1

    u̯el-1

    English meaning: to see

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘sehen”

    Material: Lat. voltus, vultus, -ūs m. “Gesichtsausdruck, Miene, Aussehen, shape” (*vl̥-tu-) stellt sich to Ir. fil “es gives”, older Imper. *u̯ele (compare Fr. voici!), Welsh gweled ‘see”, Bret. guelet “la vue”, O.Ir. fili (gen. filed, vorIr. Ogam VELITAS) “ seer, Dichter” (*u̯elēts); the name the Gmc. Seherin Veleda; in Gmc. seems eine probably from *u̯el- abgeleitete root *u̯leid- (*u̯l-ei-d-): Goth. anda-wleizn n. (?) “ front “, O.Ice. līta, O.E. wlītan ‘see, see, show”; zero grade Goth. wlits “ front, shape”, O.Ice. litr (acc. pl. litu) “Aussehen, paint, color”, O.S. wliti “ radiance, Aussehen, shape”, O.Fris. wlite “ front, Aussehen”, O.E. wlite ds., also “ radiance “, wlitu f. “form, kind of”; o-grade das causative Goth. wlaiton, O.Ice. leita (*wlaitōn) ‘sich umsehen after, suchen” (wherefore as post-verbal leit f. “das Suchen”, Wissmann nom. Postverb. 1, 11), O.E. wlatian ds.; also Gmc. *wulÞu- m. “glory, magnificence” (“*prestige”): Goth. wulÞus “glory, magnificence”, O.Ice. Ullr (*wulÞuz) “Göttername”, O.E. wuldor “gloria”, compare Goth. wulÞrs “Wert”, wulÞriza “herrlicher”; further wulÞags “ἔνδοξος”.

    References: WP. I 293, WH. II 831.