Where does “Ernährungswissenschaft” come from?
Ernährungswissenschaft (German) comes from German Wissenschaft, from German Wissen, from German wissen, from German Besserwisser, from German besser, from Middle High German beȥȥer, from Old High German beȥȥiro, from Proto-West Germanic *batiʀō — to join; to unite; to suit.
Ernährungswissenschaft (German): nutritional science / trophology
Definitions
- nutritional science / trophology
Ancestry of “Ernährungswissenschaft”, step by step
Ernährungswissenschaft traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Wissenschaft
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Wissenschaft | science; academia, scholarship; academia,... |
| 2 | German | Wissen | knowledge |
| 3 | German | wissen | to know; to be aware of; to remember |
| 4 | German | Besserwisser | know-it-all, wiseguy, wiseacre, smart aleck |
| 5 | German | besser | comparative degree of gut; better; inflection of... |
| 6 | Middle High German | beȥȥer | — |
| 7 | Old High German | beȥȥiro | better |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | *batiʀō | better |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | batizô | comparative degree of *gōdaz; comparative degree... |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | gōdaz | good |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | gadaną | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰedʰ- | to join; to unite; to suit |
via German Ernährung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Ernährung | nutrition |
| 2 | German | ernähren | to nourish, to feed |
| 3 | German | er- | Inseparable verbal prefix that indicates a... |
| 4 | Middle High German | er- | — |
| 5 | Old High German | ir- | thoroughly |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | uʀ- | out, over; off, away |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | uz- | up, out |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | uss- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | uds- | up, out |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | úd | out, outward |