Where does “Verspeiser” come from?
Verspeiser (German) comes from German verspeisen, from German speisen, from Middle High German spīsen, from Middle High German spīse, from Old High German spīsa, from Latin spensa, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus — Deictic particle, here; Post-positional...
Ancestry of “Verspeiser”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | verspeisen | to eat up, especially with great pleasure and... |
| 2 | German | speisen | to dine; to feed |
| 3 | Middle High German | spīsen | — |
| 4 | Middle High German | spīse | — |
| 5 | Old High German | spīsa | meal |
| 6 | Latin | spensa | outlay for provisions, food |
| 7 | Latin | expēnsa | — |
| 8 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 9 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 10 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 11 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 12 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 13 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 14 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 15 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 16 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 17 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |