Language Of Confusion: Wait, Part II

The second and final part in looking at the origin of wait, the Proto Indo European weg-, to be strong or lively. Most of last week was easy to see how wait could be related. This week… not so much.
 
I’ve actually done most of these words before, but all of them a long while ago and their relation to wait has to be expanded upon. For example, wicked of all words. It showed up in the thirteenth century  from wick—not like a candle wick but rather an old way of saying wicked that has nothing to do with wicks. It’s from the Old English wicca, which means… witch. And you know that’s where witch comes from, too. Before that, it’s thought to be related to wigle, divination, which is from the Proto Germanic wikkjaz, necromancer, and that word is from weg-. I guess a necromancer is making things lively, as it were.
 
Next, there’s surveillance. It didn’t show up until the early nineteenth century from the French surveillance, monitoring. That’s from the verb surveiller, to watch, which is a mix of the prefix sur-, over, and veiller, to watch, which is from the classical Latin vigilare, the origin word for vigil. Vigil is from weg-, so that’s how surveillance is related to vigil and wait, but not survey.
 
The only one of these words I haven’t already looked at is velocity, and that one isn’t even definite. It showed up in the early fifteenth century from the classical Latin velocitatem, speed, which has an uncertain origin. It may be from vehere, to ride (the origin for vehicle) or it may be right from weg-. Since weg- meas to be lively, I could see it being true, more so than wait. But you know etymology doesn’t make sense.
 
Finally, vegetable. Yeah. Already done that word, too. It showed up in the early fifteenth century, coming from the Old French vegetable, Medieval Latin/Late Latin vegetabilis, and the classical Latin vegetare, to vegetate. That’s from vegere, to grow, which is from weg-. That “to be lively” thing is quite literal here.
 
Sources
Online Etymology Dictionary
Google Translate
Omniglot
University of Texas at Austin Linguistic Research Center
University of Texas at San Antonio’s page on Proto Indo European language
Tony Jebson’s page on the Origins of Old English
Old English-English Dictionary
Dictionary of Medieval Latin
Orbis Latinus