survey

The story

1. Latin · derived fromvidere
2. Old French · derived fromsourveoir
3. Middle English · derived fromsurveyen
4. English todaysurvey

From Middle English surveyen, from Old French sourveoir, surveer (“to oversee”), from sour-, sur- (“over”) + veoir, veeir (“to see”), from Latin videre. See sur- and vision. Related to supervision.

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