Where does “Sprachwissenschaft” come from?
Sprachwissenschaft (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.
Sprachwissenschaft (German): linguistics
Definitions
- linguistics
Ancestry of “Sprachwissenschaft”, step by step
Sprachwissenschaft 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 |