Etymology

surview

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Today it means: To survey; to make a survey of. Full definition →

Middle English survewe ← Old French surveoir
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromsurveoir
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsurvewe
  3. English todaysurview

From Middle English survewe, from Old French surveoir, sorveoir (“to look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch”); equivalent to sur- + view.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.