Where does “Höllenspaß” come from?
Höllenspaß (German) comes from German Spaß, from German Spasso, from Italian spasso, from Vulgar Latin expassare, from Latin expandō, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus, from Latin -us — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Höllenspaß (German): a lot of fun; a blast
Definitions
- a lot of fun; a blast
Ancestry of “Höllenspaß”, step by step
Höllenspaß traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Spaß
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Spaß | fun; joke |
| 2 | German | Spasso | — |
| 3 | Italian | spasso | fun; leisure; walk |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | expassare | — |
| 5 | Latin | expandō | to spread something out |
| 6 | Latin | pandō | to spread or open (out), extend |
| 7 | Latin | pandus | bend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked |
| 8 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 9 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |