Surveyor

Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 513

sur-vS'or, n. an overseer a measurer afland.—«. Survey'orahip. Survival, sur-vTv'al, «. a surviving or living after. Survive, sur-vlv v.t. to live beyond to outlive. v.i. to remain alive. [Fr.—L. super, beyond, and vivere, to live.]