Where does “naturvetare” come from?
naturvetare (Swedish) comes from Swedish naturvetenskap, 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.
naturvetare (Swedish): a scientist; person who studies natural sciences
Definitions
- a scientist; person who studies natural sciences
Ancestry of “naturvetare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Swedish | naturvetenskap | science |
| 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 |