Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wel-

*wel-

1. to see

• *wél-e-ti (thematic root present)
  • Celtic: *weleti (see there for further descendants)

• *wel-ēt-s
  • Celtic: *weless (“seer, poet”) (see there for further descendants)

• *wl̥-tu- (“appearance”)
  • Germanic: *wulþuz (see there for further descendants)
  • Italic:
    • Latin: vultus (“(facial) expression”), voltus

• *wl̥-ei-d-
  • Germanic: *wlītaną (see there for further descendants)

• Unsorted formations:
  • Albanian:
    • Albanian: mbyll (“close”)
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: գեղ (geł, “beauty”)
  • Germanic: *wlitiz (“sight, appearance, face”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Germanic: *wlaitōną (“to look around, look for”)
    • Old English: wlātian (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Norse: leita (“to seek, search”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Gothic: 𐍅𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽 (wlaitōn)
  • Tocharian:
    • Tocharian B: yel- (“to examine”)

• Kroonen, Guus (2013), “wlītan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 591
• Kroonen, Guus (2013), “wulþu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 599
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “u̯el-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1136f
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “u̯el-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 675