Where does “tekstkritikk” come from?
tekstkritikk (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål kritikk, from Ancient Greek kritike, from French critique, from New Latin critica, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός, from Ancient Greek κρίσις, from Ancient Greek κρίνω — to sift, separate, divide.
tekstkritikk (Norwegian Bokmål): textual criticism
Definitions
- textual criticism
Ancestry of “tekstkritikk”, step by step
tekstkritikk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål kritikk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | kritikk | criticism; a review |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | kritike | — |
| 3 | French | critique | critical; judgemental; criticism |
| 4 | New Latin | critica | critique; inflection of criticus: ##... |
| 5 | Latin | criticus | critical, decisive; a critic |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κριτικός | Able to judge, discerning, critical; critic,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κρίσις | decision, determination, judgment; trial,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κρίνω | To separate, divide, part, distinguish between... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | kríňňō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | krinyéti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | krey- | to sift, separate, divide |