The story
- Proto-Indo-European*weyk-
- Latinvictima
- Middle Frenchvictime
- English todayvictim
From Middle French victime, from Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”). Although this root and victor drive from homophonous PIE roots, they are traditionally reconstructed as separate words and thus not cognates.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.