Where does “speelless” come from?
speelless (English) comes from English speel, from English bonspiel, from Dutch bond, from Middle Dutch bund, from Proto-Germanic bandaz, from French bandage, from French bande, from French là — that.
speelless (English): Being a kind of straw braid with smooth sides, without the ends of straws protruding
Definitions
- Being a kind of straw braid with smooth sides, without the ends of straws protruding
Ancestry of “speelless”, step by step
speelless traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English speel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | speel | To climb; To talk at length, to spiel; To run |
| 2 | English | bonspiel | A tournament in the sport of curling |
| 3 | Dutch | bond | society, fellowship; union, association, guild;... |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | bund | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | bandaz | — |
| 6 | French | bandage | bandage |
| 7 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 8 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 9 | Italian | là | there |
| 10 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 11 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 12 | Old Portuguese | ala | — |
| 13 | Latin | illac | that way, that side, there, along that path, in... |
| 14 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 15 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 16 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 17 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |