the homonymous 1st and 3rd person singular perfect tense ', cognate to Greek (?)???? ((w)oida) "I know". Root cognates are Greek ????, English wit, Latin video "I see", Russian ?????? (védat') "to know", etc.

The Sanskrit term ' as a common noun means "knowledge". The term in some contexts, such as hymn 10.93.11 of the Rigveda, means "obtaining or finding wealth,