Where does “Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin” come from?
Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin (German) comes from German Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, from German Wissenschaftler, 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.
Ancestry of “Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin”, step by step
Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Wirtschaftswissenschaftler | economist |
| 2 | German | Wissenschaftler | scientist; scholar, researcher, academic |
| 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 |
via German Wissenschaftlerin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Wissenschaftlerin | scientist, scholar, researcher, academic |
| 2 | German | -īn | creates the female form for many nouns for living beings; umlaut usually occurs in monosyllables, but rarely in polysyllables |
| 3 | Middle High German | -īn | — |