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VID was uttered or spoken for millennia before the first written languages appeared. It is first recognized in "Proto-Indo-Aryan" studies as the root VID, meaning "to know", in Southwestern Asia.

"Sanskrit 'vid' is not a word, like the Latin videre, but what we technically call a 'root' that is a sort of grammatical abstraction from which verb forms are made by the application of certain rules." This according to Dr. Walter Maurer, Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Indo-Pacific languages, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

With the advent of written languages, including cuneiform and sanskrit, VID spread in many directions. To the east vid became "veda" meaning "knowledge" or even "sacred knowledge".

VID also migrated by "unmistakable affinity" [according to Carl W. Conrad, Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)], to the west, where early Greeks used the root "vid", and later "video" meaning "to know", and eventually to Latin "video" meaning "I see" or "I apprehend". The roots of VID are inextricably connected to "knowing".

Vid is also a Slavic toponym used for:

Vit, a river in Bulgaria
Vid, Croatia, a small settlement and archeological site near Metković on the border of Croatia and Herzegovina

Other uses include:

Víd, a river, one of the Élivágar, in Norse mythology
slang for video or videotape

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