Such descriptive terms as whispering or just words were also in popular use. As an obsolete may be mentioned a recorded in Dal's Dictionary term veschbaⓘRussian: вещба, made of verb veschatiRussian: вещать[2] "tell/speak", "foretell/divine" stem (as in the adjective veschiyвещий "wise", "cognizant") and -ba suffix, used mainly to form verbal action nouns, like -ing in English, thus meaning "doing of the wise, cognizant". Veschba has deep linguistic roots cognate with the Sanskrit word véda "knowledge, wisdom" and going back to the Proto-Indo-European root *u̯eid-, meaning "see" or "know".[citation needed]
