Where does “Spaaß” come from?
Spaaß (Low 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...
Spaaß (Low German): fun; joke
Definitions
- fun; joke
Ancestry of “Spaaß”, step by step
| 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... |