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