The word 'visit' entered English in the 13th century from the Old French 'visiter', which itself originated from the Latin 'visitat-' (the past participle stem of 'visere'), meaning 'to go to see, to view'. This Latin verb 'visere' is a frequentative form of 'videre', meaning 'to see'. The core semantic thread from its Proto-Indo-European root weid- ('to see, to know') is beautifully preserved: the act of visiting is fundamentally an act of going to see someone or something. Over centuries, the meaning expanded from a physical act of seeing to encompass the social ritual of calling upon someone and, in the digital age, the act of accessing a website to 'see' its content.

The modern English word 'visit' is a simplex form derived as a whole from its Latin ancestor. It cannot be meaningfully segmented into productive morphemes in modern English spelling without resorting to etymological roots not present in its current form.