Where does “elspezi” come from?
elspezi (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto spezi, from Esperanto spezo, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
elspezi (Esperanto): to spend, pay out
Definitions
- to spend, pay out
Ancestry of “elspezi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | spezi | to pay, spend |
| 2 | Esperanto | spezo | turnover |
| 3 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 4 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 6 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 7 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 18 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 19 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 20 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 22 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |