Where does “thought experiment” come from?
thought experiment (English) comes from German Gedankenexperiment, from German Experiment, from Latin experimentum, from Latin experior, from Latin pariō, from Latin -iō, from Proto-West Germanic -jō, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
thought experiment (English): An attempt to solve a problem using the power of...
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Ancestry of “thought experiment”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Gedankenexperiment | gedankenexperiment, a thought experiment |
| 2 | German | Experiment | experiment |
| 3 | Latin | experimentum | test, trial, experiment; experience |
| 4 | Latin | experior | I attempt, I try; I test, I put to the test, I... |
| 5 | Latin | pariō | to bear, to give birth to |
| 6 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |