Where does “natuurwetenschapper” come from?
natuurwetenschapper (Dutch) comes from Dutch wetenschapper, from German Wissenschafter, from German Wissenschaft, from German Wissen, from German wissen, from German Besserwisser, from German besser, from Middle High German beȥȥer — to join; to unite; to suit.
natuurwetenschapper (Dutch): natural scientist
Definitions
- natural scientist
Ancestry of “natuurwetenschapper”, step by step
natuurwetenschapper traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch wetenschapper
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | wetenschapper | scientist (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) |
| 2 | German | Wissenschafter | scientist male or of unspecified gender |
| 3 | German | Wissenschaft | science; academia, scholarship; academia,... |
| 4 | German | Wissen | knowledge |
| 5 | German | wissen | to know; to be aware of; to remember |
| 6 | German | Besserwisser | know-it-all, wiseguy, wiseacre, smart aleck |
| 7 | German | besser | comparative degree of gut; better; inflection of... |
| 8 | Middle High German | beȥȥer | — |
| 9 | Old High German | beȥȥiro | better |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | *batiʀō | better |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | batizô | comparative degree of *gōdaz; comparative degree... |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | gōdaz | good |
| 13 | Proto-Germanic | gadaną | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰedʰ- | to join; to unite; to suit |
via Dutch natuur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | natuur | nature; character |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | nature | nature, force of nature; laws of nature, natural... |
| 3 | Old French | nature | nature |
| 4 | Latin | nātūra | the nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing |
| 5 | Latin | nātus | born, arisen, made |
| 6 | Latin | gnātus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | gnātos | born |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵn̥h₁tós | begotten, produced |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |