Where does “vett och sans” come from?
vett och sans (Swedish) comes from Swedish sans, from French Sens, from Italian senso, from English sense, from Middle English sense, from Old French sens, from Latin sēnsus, from Dutch census — to cover, conceal; hornless.
vett och sans (Swedish): sensibleness, common sense
Definitions
- sensibleness, common sense
Ancestry of “vett och sans”, step by step
vett och sans traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish sans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | sans | composure, sense |
| 2 | French | Sens | meaning, sense |
| 3 | Italian | senso | sense; direction; purpose |
| 4 | English | sense | Any of the manners by which living beings... |
| 5 | Middle English | sense | meaning, signification; interpretation |
| 6 | Old French | sens | reason; ability to reason or think |
| 7 | Latin | sēnsus | faculty or power of perceiving; perception, feeling, sensation, sense |
| 8 | Dutch | census | a census |
| 9 | Latin | census | census, a registering of the populace and their... |
| 10 | Latin | censeo | I give an opinion; I think, suppose or judge; I... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kensēō | to give an opinion |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kensējō | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens-éh₁-ye-ti | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱens- | to announce, to proclaim; to put in order |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱem- | to cover, conceal; hornless |
via Swedish och
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 2 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 4 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |