Where does “Spielspaß” come from?
Spielspaß (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...
Spielspaß (German): the fun of playing a game
Definitions
- the fun of playing a game
Ancestry of “Spielspaß”, step by step
Spielspaß 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... |