Where does “naturvitenskap” come from?
naturvitenskap (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål vitenskap, from Danish videnskab, from Dutch wetenschap, from Dutch weten, from Middle Dutch wēten, from Old Dutch wītan, from Proto-West Germanic wītan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną — to see.
naturvitenskap (Norwegian Bokmål): natural science
Definitions
- natural science
Ancestry of “naturvitenskap”, step by step
naturvitenskap traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål vitenskap
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | vitenskap | science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship; any... |
| 2 | Danish | videnskab | science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship; any... |
| 3 | Dutch | wetenschap | knowledge; science, scholarly knowledge,... |
| 4 | Dutch | weten | to know; to remember; to be able to, to manage to |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | wēten | to know knowledge |
| 6 | Old Dutch | wītan | to know |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | wītan | to accuse, to blame |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | *witaną | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wóyde | to have seen, to know |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |
via Norwegian Bokmål natur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | natur | nature |
| 2 | Latin | nātūra | the nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing |
| 3 | Latin | nātus | born, arisen, made |
| 4 | Latin | gnātus | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | gnātos | born |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵn̥h₁tós | begotten, produced |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |