Where does “Politikwissenschaft” come from?
Politikwissenschaft (German) comes from German Politik, from French politique, from Latin polīticus, from Swedish politisk, from Swedish politik, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της, from Ancient Greek -της — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
Politikwissenschaft (German): political science
Definitions
- political science
Ancestry of “Politikwissenschaft”, step by step
Politikwissenschaft traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Politik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Politik | politics |
| 2 | French | politique | political; politics; policy |
| 3 | Latin | polīticus | political, civil, of the state, relating to civil polity |
| 4 | Swedish | politisk | political, having to do with politics |
| 5 | Swedish | politik | politics |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πολιτικός | civic, constitutional, public; social |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
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 |