guiar

/ˈɡjaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to guide

🧭 guiar = guide + -ar: the Spanish twin of English guide

Spanish guiar and English guide share one root: a Germanic word meaning to show the way, which came in through French and Occitan. Drop the -e from guide, add the verb ending -ar, and you have guiar. A guía is a guide.

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