Where does “spīse” come from?
spīse (Middle High German) comes from Old High German spīsa, from Latin spensa, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e.
Ancestry of “spīse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old High German | spīsa | meal |
| 2 | Latin | spensa | outlay for provisions, food |
| 3 | Latin | expēnsa | — |
| 4 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 5 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 7 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 8 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |