Where does “spiseæble” come from?
spiseæble (Danish) comes from Danish spise, from Middle Low German spīse, from Old Saxon spīsa, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo, from Latin ex-.
spiseæble (Danish): eating apple
Definitions
- eating apple
Ancestry of “spiseæble”, step by step
spiseæble traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish spise
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | spise | food; dish; to eat |
| 2 | Middle Low German | spīse | — |
| 3 | Old Saxon | spīsa | — |
| 4 | Latin | expēnsa | — |
| 5 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 6 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 7 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 8 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 9 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 10 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 11 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 12 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 13 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 18 | Middle English | kyt | — |