Veda (Spanish for “closed season” such as, the time of year when you can’t hunt for your favorite beast) comes from the Latin vetare, which meant, “to forbid”.
In fact, from the same Latin root, we get the English… veto. Veto is actually the first-person conjugation in Latin: “I forbid!”
We can clearly see the that the v-d of veda maps to the v-t of veto.
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