Where does “socialvetenskaplig” come from?
socialvetenskaplig (Swedish) comes from Swedish socialvetenskap, 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.
Ancestry of “socialvetenskaplig”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | socialvetenskap | social 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 | 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 |