Where does “Sprachwissenschaftlerin” come from?
Sprachwissenschaftlerin (German) comes from German Sprachwissenschaftler, from German Sprachwissenschaft, 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.
Sprachwissenschaftlerin (German): female linguist
Definitions
- female linguist
Ancestry of “Sprachwissenschaftlerin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Sprachwissenschaftler | linguist |
| 2 | German | Sprachwissenschaft | linguistics |
| 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 |