Where does “ovetenskaplighet” come from?
ovetenskaplighet (Swedish) comes from Swedish ovetenskaplig, from Swedish vetenskaplig, from Swedish vetenskap, from Afrikaans wetenskap, from Dutch wetenschap, from Dutch weten, from Middle Dutch wēten, from Old Dutch wītan — to see.
ovetenskaplighet (Swedish): unscientificness
Definitions
- unscientificness
Ancestry of “ovetenskaplighet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | ovetenskaplig | unscientific |
| 2 | Swedish | vetenskaplig | scientific |
| 3 | Swedish | vetenskap | science, scholarly knowledge, scholarship; any... |
| 4 | Afrikaans | wetenskap | science |
| 5 | Dutch | wetenschap | knowledge; science, scholarly knowledge,... |
| 6 | Dutch | weten | to know; to remember; to be able to, to manage to |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | wēten | to know knowledge |
| 8 | Old Dutch | wītan | to know |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | wītan | to accuse, to blame |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | *witaną | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | wóyde | to have seen, to know |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |