Where does “uvitenskapelig” come from?
uvitenskapelig (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål vitenskapelig, 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 — to see.
uvitenskapelig (Norwegian Bokmål): unscientific
Definitions
- unscientific
Ancestry of “uvitenskapelig”, step by step
uvitenskapelig traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål vitenskapelig
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | vitenskapelig | scientific |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | vitenskap | science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship; any... |
| 3 | Danish | videnskab | science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship; any... |
| 4 | Dutch | wetenschap | knowledge; science, scholarly knowledge,... |
| 5 | Dutch | weten | to know; to remember; to be able to, to manage to |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | wēten | to know knowledge |
| 7 | Old Dutch | wītan | to know |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | wītan | to accuse, to blame |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | *witaną | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wóyde | to have seen, to know |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |
via Norwegian Bokmål U
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | U | The uppercase form of u, the twenty-first letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script; preceded by t and followed by v |
| 2 | Latin | v | Capital form of |
| 3 | Etruscan | 𐌖 | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Υ | ypsilon |
| 5 | Phoenician | 𐤅 | waw; {{l|en|waw}} |
| 6 | Egyptian | 𓏲 | — |