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Where does “Spaass” come from?

Spaass (Luxembourgish) 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 (Luxembourgish): fun, amusement, pleasure; joke

Definitions

  1. fun, amusement, pleasure; joke

Ancestry of “Spaass”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSpaßfun; joke
2GermanSpasso—
3Italianspassofun; leisure; walk
4Vulgar Latinexpassare—
5Latinexpandō—
6Latinpandō—
7Latinpandusbend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked
8Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
9Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
10Proto-Italic-os—
11Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “Spaass”

  • spaassen
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