"guide" in seven languages
Meaningguide
Spanish
guía
/ˈgia/
fem.inherited
El/la guía is the person, la guía the guidebook.
French
guide
/gid/
masc.borrowed · Italian guida
Italian
guida
/ˈgwida/
fem.inherited
La guida is both the person and the book; also 'driving' (patente di guida).
Portuguese
guia
/ˈgiɐ/
masc.inherited
Romanian
ghid
/gid/
masc.borrowed · French guide
Catalan
guia
/ˈgiə/
masc.inherited
English
guide
/ɡaɪd/
from Latin/French · Old French guide
English → ItalianguideguidaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Germanic *wītan‘to watch over, show the way’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Germanic w- became gu- in Romance, as in guerra: the u is still heard in Italian guida but silent in Spanish guía and French guide.
English relatives: guide; wit, wise (the native Germanic distant cognates)
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In a sentence
- esLa guía habla cuatro idiomas.
- frLe guide parle quatre langues.
- itLa guida parla quattro lingue.
- ptA guia fala quatro línguas.
- roGhidul vorbește patru limbi.
- caLa guia parla quatre llengües.
- enThe guide speaks four languages.