vil
Old French
adj
Definitions
- horrible; vile; awful
- low; base
Etymology
Inherited from Latin vilis root from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (buy, sell, wet, eat, dress, moist, put on, clothe, moisture, graze, wear, damp, prick, stick, consume, pierce, feast, fat, be, happy, stab, be cheerful, sting).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wes-
Gloss
buy, sell, wet, eat, dress, moist, put on, clothe, moisture, graze, wear, damp, prick, stick, consume, pierce, feast, fat, be, happy, stab, be cheerful, sting
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
着
Emoji
🏪 🏬
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disinvest English
- divestment English
- investment English
- vestibule school English
- vesture English
- vile English
- vilely English
- vileness English
- vilesome English
- vility English
- investio Latin
- venum Latin
- venus Latin
- vestio Latin
- vestitus Latin
- vestīmentum Latin
- vestīre Latin
- vilipendō Latin
- vilis Latin
- ἐσθής Ancient Greek
- *(s)pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂wes- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes-li- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes-ti(h₂)- Proto-Indo-European
- *wésmn̥ Proto-Indo-European
- *wéstis Proto-Indo-European
- *wéstrom Proto-Indo-European
- *uzdaz Proto-Germanic
- *wastijō Proto-Germanic
- *wastilaz Proto-Germanic
- *wastiliz Proto-Germanic
- *wasô Proto-Germanic
- *wazjaną Proto-Germanic
- *wōsaz Proto-Germanic
- *wōsą Proto-Germanic
- desvestir Old French
- vilment Old French
- بازار Persian
- vil Middle French
- *weskā Proto-Celtic
- *wástay Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wastil Frankish
- *wesel- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *wahā-čā̆rana- Proto-Iranian
- 𐎺𐏃𐎠𐎨𐎼𐎴 Old Persian
- *wosa fiu-pro
- *wehanós Proto-Hellenic
- *wehnūmi Proto-Hellenic
- *wäs- Proto-Tocharian