Etymology Explorer › German

Where does “spitze” come from?

spitze (German) comes from Middle High German spitze, from Old High German spizza, from Proto-Germanic spitjaz.

spitze (German): great, awesome; inflection of spitzen: ##...

Definitions

  1. great, awesome; inflection of spitzen: ##...

Ancestry of “spitze”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanspitze—
2Old High Germanspizza—
3Proto-Germanicspitjaz—
Every word from Proto-Germanic spitjaz →