View
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vieue, feminine past participle of veoir ‘see’, from Latin videre . The verb dates from the early 16th century.
wiktionary
From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veuef (French vuef), feminine past participle of veoir(“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta. Doublet of vista.
etymonline
view (n.)
early 15c., "formal inspection or survey" (of land); mid-15c., "visual perception," from Anglo-French vewe "view," Old French veue "light, brightness; look, appearance; eyesight, vision," noun use of fem. past participle of veoir "to see," from Latin videre "to see" (from PIE root *weid- "to see"). Sense of "manner of regarding something" attested from early 15c. Meaning "sight or prospect of a landscape, etc." is recorded from c. 1600.
view (v.)
1520s, "inspect, examine," from view (n.). From 1765 as "to regard in a certain way;" from 1935 as "to watch television." Related: Viewed; viewing.
