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