Where does “litteraturvetare” come from?
litteraturvetare (Swedish) comes from Swedish litteraturvetenskap, from Swedish vetenskap, from Afrikaans wetenskap, from Dutch wetenschap, from Dutch weten, from Middle Dutch wēten, from Old Dutch wītan, from Proto-West Germanic wītan — to see.
litteraturvetare (Swedish): a literature scholar
Ancestry of “litteraturvetare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Swedish | litteraturvetenskap | literature studies |
| 2 | Swedish | vetenskap | science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship; any... |
| 3 | Afrikaans | wetenskap | science |
| 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 | — |
| 7 | Old Dutch | wītan | — |
| 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 |