Wide
Old English wīd ‘spacious, extensive’, wīde ‘over a large area’, of Germanic origin.
wiktionary
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd(“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwi-(“apart, asunder, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁(“two”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid(“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid(“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd(“wide; large; broad”), German weit(“far; wide; broad”), Swedish vid(“wide”), Icelandic víður(“wide”), Latin dīvidō(“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō(“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
etymonline
wide (adj.)
Old English wid "vast, broad, long," also used of time, from Proto-Germanic *widaz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian wid, Old Norse viðr, Dutch wijd, Old High German wit, German weit), perhaps from PIE *wi-ito-, from root *wi- "apart, away, in half."
Meaning "distended, expanded, spread apart" is from c. 1500; sense of "embracing many subjects" is from 1530s; meaning "missing the intended target" is from 1580s. As a second element in compounds (such as nationwide, worldwide) meaning "extending through the whole of," is is from late Old English. As an adverb, Old English wide. Wide open "unguarded, exposed to attack" (1915) originally was in boxing, etc. Wide awake (adj.) is first recorded 1818; figurative sense of "alert, knowing" is attested from 1833.
