Where does “natuurscheikunde” come from?
natuurscheikunde (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.
natuurscheikunde (Dutch): science class junior highschool subject teaching basic physics and chemistry
Definitions
- science class junior highschool subject teaching basic physics and chemistry
Ancestry of “natuurscheikunde”, step by step
natuurscheikunde traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch natuurkunde
| 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 |
via Dutch scheikunde
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | scheikunde | chemistry |
| 2 | Dutch | scheiden | to separate; to divorce |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | scheiden | to separate; to dissolve, to break up; to divide |
| 4 | Old Dutch | skeithan | to leave, to separate from |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | skaiþan | to separate |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skaiþaną | to separate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | skeyt- | to cut, part, separate; to cut, part, divide,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | skey- | to split, to dissect |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |