Where does “religionsvetenskaplig” come from?
religionsvetenskaplig (Swedish) comes from Swedish religionsvetenskap, 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.
religionsvetenskaplig (Swedish): religious-studies pertaining to the scientific study of religion
Definitions
- religious-studies pertaining to the scientific study of religion
Ancestry of “religionsvetenskaplig”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | religionsvetenskap | religious studies the academic study of religion |
| 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 | 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 |