Where does “natuurkundige” come from?
natuurkundige (Dutch) comes from Dutch natuurkunde, from Dutch natuur, from Middle Dutch nature, from Old French nature, from Latin nātūra, from Latin nātus, from Latin gnātus, from Proto-Italic gnātos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
natuurkundige (Dutch): physicist
Definitions
- physicist
Ancestry of “natuurkundige”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | natuurkunde | physics |
| 2 | Dutch | natuur | nature; character |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | nature | nature, force of nature; laws of nature, natural... |
| 4 | Old French | nature | nature |
| 5 | Latin | nātūra | the nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing |
| 6 | Latin | nātus | born, arisen, made |
| 7 | Latin | gnātus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | gnātos | born |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵn̥h₁tós | begotten, produced |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |