origin: 1350-1400; Middle English historie < Latin historia < Greek historía learning or knowing by inquiry, history; derivative of hístōr one who knows or sees (akin to wit, video, veda )
Well, sometimes history can stop history from being repeated as the people involved can see the consequences from it. An example of this is World War 2; people saw that they gave Hitler too much...
The word what derives from the Latin quod via Germanic was and Old English hwæt, the neuter form of hwa (who).___What and quod have a common ancestor, but what is not 'derived from Latin'.
The word "history" comes from Middle English through Latin. It was originally Greek and was spelt as "historia", meaning to inquire as well as narrative and history.
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