Where does “geisteswissenschaft” come from?
geisteswissenschaft (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.
geisteswissenschaft (German): humanities, liberal arts, Geisteswissenschaften the branch of learning that includes the arts, classics, philosophy and history etc
Definitions
- humanities, liberal arts, Geisteswissenschaften the branch of learning that includes the arts, classics, philosophy and history etc
Ancestry of “geisteswissenschaft”, step by step
geisteswissenschaft 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 |