Where does “jezikoslovni” come from?
jezikoslovni (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian jezikoslovlje, from German Sprachwissenschaft, 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.
jezikoslovni (Serbo-Croatian): linguistic, philological
Definitions
- linguistic, philological
Ancestry of “jezikoslovni”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | jezikoslovlje | linguistics |
| 2 | German | Sprachwissenschaft | linguistics |
| 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 |