Where does “spaassen” come from?
spaassen (Luxembourgish) comes from Luxembourgish Spaass, from German Spaß, from German Spasso, from Italian spasso, from Vulgar Latin expassare, from Latin expandō, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
spaassen (Luxembourgish): to joke, to jest
Ancestry of “spaassen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Luxembourgish | Spaass | fun, amusement, pleasure; joke |
| 2 | German | Spaß | fun; joke |
| 3 | German | Spasso | — |
| 4 | Italian | spasso | fun; leisure; walk |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | expassare | — |
| 6 | Latin | expandō | — |
| 7 | Latin | pandō | — |
| 8 | Latin | pandus | bend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked |
| 9 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 10 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |