Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *wlītanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_wlītaną
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*wel-to see
verbStrong class 1to see, lookFrom pre-Germanic *wleyd(ʰ)- or *wleyt-. Further etymology uncertain, but probably from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *wel- (‘to see’) (though Kroonen is skeptical of the morphology; compare *wrītaną for this structure), and perhaps influenced by the related iterative *wlittōną (“to strive”, literally “to look repeatedly”).