Sight
/saɪt/noun
The faculty or act of seeing; visual perception.
Did you know?In Old English, sight was spelled *siht* and belonged to a Germanic family of words built around seeing—while related words like *vision* came from a completely different Latin root.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sekʷ-
“to see, perceive”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*sehwaną
“to see”
Old English
OE
siht
“the act or faculty of seeing; vision”
Middle English
ME
sight
“vision; the power or act of seeing”
Modern English
English
sight
“the faculty or act of seeing; visual perception”