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Since the dawn of Modern Humans the realization, by each person, of they’re “knowing” has been most valuable. Early linguistic records show that the root of this realization was the root “vid”. VID was uttered or spoken for millenia before the first written languages appeared. Vid first appeared in written form that is traceable in Sanskrit. "Sanskrit vid is not a word, like the Latin videre, but what we technically call a 'root' that is a sort of grammatical abstraction from which verb forms are made by the application of certain rules." This according to Dr. Walter Maurer, Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Indo-Pacific languages, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It is recognized in "Proto-Indo-Eurasian" studies as the root VID, meaning "to know", in Southwestern Asia. With the advent of written languages, including as cuneiform and Sanskrit, VID spread in many directions. To the east vid formed "Veda" meaning "knowledge" or even "sacred knowledge". VID also migrated by "unmistakable affinity" according to Carl W. Conrad, Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus), to the west, where early Greeks used the root "vid", and later "video" meaning "to know", and eventually to Latin "video" meaning "I see" or "I apprehend". The roots of VID are inextricably connected to "knowing". In spite of this extensive history, only one language, a dialect of Southern Danish, still refers to “vida” as “to know”? [Phylogentic methods and the prehistory of languages – Peter Forster & Colin Renfrew] Bobkiger (talk) 23:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)Bob Kiger