Etymology Explorer › Luxembourgish

Where does “Spëtz” come from?

Spëtz (Luxembourgish) comes from Old High German spizza, from Proto-Germanic spitjaz.

Spëtz (Luxembourgish): point, tip

Definitions

  1. point, tip

Ancestry of “Spëtz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanspizza—
2Proto-Germanicspitjaz—

Words derived from “Spëtz”

  • Fangerspëtz
Every word from Proto-Germanic spitjaz →