Where does “Weltanschauung” come from?
Weltanschauung (German) comes from German Anschauung, from Latin vīsiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis-, from Latin calceus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
Weltanschauung (German): worldview, weltanschauung, philosophy of life,...
Definitions
- worldview, weltanschauung, philosophy of life,...
Ancestry of “Weltanschauung”, step by step
Weltanschauung traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Anschauung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Anschauung | opinion; mode of view; outlook; intuition |
| 2 | Latin | vīsiō | seeing, sight, vision, view |
| 3 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 4 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 5 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 6 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via German welt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | welt | world |
| 2 | Middle High German | werlt | world |
| 3 | Old High German | weralt | world |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | weraldi | world |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | weraldiz | lifetime, worldly existence; mankind; world |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | weraz | man; husband |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wiHrós | man; husband; warrior, hero |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | weyh₁- | to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute |