Where does “spīsen” come from?
spīsen (Middle High German) comes from Middle High German spīse, from Old High German spīsa, from Latin spensa, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo, from Latin ex- — whale, sea monster; abyss.
Ancestry of “spīsen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle High German | spīse | — |
| 2 | Old High German | spīsa | meal |
| 3 | Latin | spensa | outlay for provisions, food |
| 4 | Latin | expēnsa | — |
| 5 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 6 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 7 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 8 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 9 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 10 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 11 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 12 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 13 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 18 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 19 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 20 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 21 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |