Lemizh / English dictionary

zvormàv.

to do science, to work as a scientist on something-acc; science

Etymology

< NLem zvor‑mev‑a, compound of
  NLem zvor‑a ‘friend’
< LMLem, MLem swisor‑yr ‘sibling’
< OLem swisor‑
< PLem *swesor‑ ‘sister’
< PIE *su̯ésor‑s
 —and—
  NLem mev‑a ‘wise’
< LMLem, MLem mev‑yr
< OLem medh‑ ‘measure, look after, enforce’
< PLem *medh‑, Narten present of
< PIE *med‑

This is a NLem learned calque from Koi φιλοσοφίᾱ ‘philosophy, science’, lit. ‘love of wisdom’.

See also zvà..

Cognates

Eng sister; Ger messen ‘measure’ (but not Eng measure)