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he word history comes from Greek ἱστο�ία (historia), from the Proto-Indo-European *wid-tor-, from the root *weid-, "to know, to see".[2] This root is also present in the English words wit, wise, wisdom, vision, and idea, in the Sanskrit word veda,[3] and in the Slavic word videti and vedati, as well as others.[citation needed] (The asterisk before a word indicates that it is a hypothetical construction, not an attested form.).

The Ancient Greek word ἱστο�ία, historía, means "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation". It was in that sense that Aristotle used the word in his Πε�ί Τά Ζωα Ιστο�ία, Peri Ta Zoa Istória or, in Latinized form, Historia Animalium.[4] The term is derived from ἵστω�, híst�r meaning wise man, witness, or judge. We can see early attestations of ἵστω� in Homeric Hymns, Heraclitus, the Athenian ephebes' oath, and in Boiotic inscriptions (in a legal sense, either "judge" or "witness," or similar). The spirant......

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