Where does “populærvidenskab” come from?
populærvidenskab (Danish) comes from Danish videnskab, from Dutch wetenschap, from Dutch weten, from Middle Dutch wēten, from Old Dutch wītan, from Proto-West Germanic wītan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European wóyde — to see.
populærvidenskab (Danish): popular science
Definitions
- popular science
Ancestry of “populærvidenskab”, step by step
populærvidenskab traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish videnskab
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | videnskab | science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship; any... |
| 2 | Dutch | wetenschap | knowledge; science, scholarly knowledge,... |
| 3 | Dutch | weten | to know; to remember; to be able to, to manage to |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | wēten | to know knowledge |
| 5 | Old Dutch | wītan | to know |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | wītan | to accuse, to blame |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *witaną | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wóyde | to have seen, to know |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |
via Danish populær
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | populær | popular, liked by many people; popular, prevalent... |
| 2 | French | populaire | people's; of the people |
| 3 | Middle French | populaire | — |
| 4 | Latin | populāris | popular (by, of or for the people) |
| 5 | Latin | -āris | first conjugation |
| 6 | Latin | -ālis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ālis | forms relational adjectives |