Where does “Mehlspeise” come from?
Mehlspeise (German) comes from German Speise, from Middle High German spīse, from Old High German spīsa, from Latin spensa, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo — beside, near, by, with.
Mehlspeise (German): Any food made with flour, sometimes also milk, butter, and eggs
Definitions
- Any food made with flour, sometimes also milk, butter, and eggs
Ancestry of “Mehlspeise”, step by step
Mehlspeise traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Speise
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Speise | meal, fare |
| 2 | Middle High German | spīse | — |
| 3 | Old High German | spīsa | meal |
| 4 | Latin | spensa | outlay for provisions, food |
| 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 |
via German Mehl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Mehl | flour; meal; powder; dust |
| 2 | Middle High German | mel | — |
| 3 | Old High German | melo | flour |
| 4 | West Germanic | *melu | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | melwą | ground corn, meal, flour |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂- | to grind, to crush |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mel- | soft; tender; weak; to deceive; to rub |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | my- | to soil, sully |