The story
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewis-dʰh₁
- Proto-Hellenic*awistʰomai
- Ancient Greekαἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai)
- Ancient Greekαἴσθησῐς (aísthēsĭs)
- Ancient Greekαἰσθητικός (aisthētikós)
- Latinaesthēticus
- GermanÄsthetik
- New Latinaesthēticu
- Frenchesthétique
- English todayaesthetic
From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of sense perception”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to feel”); analysable as aesthe(sis) + -tic. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Latin audiō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.