Where does “spatze” come from?

spatze (Middle High German) comes from Middle High German spare, from Old High German sparo, from Proto-West Germanic sparwō, from Proto-Germanic sparwô, from Proto-Indo-European spḗr — sparrow.

Ancestry of “spatze”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanspare—
2Old High Germansparosparrow
3Proto-West Germanicsparwōsparrow
4Proto-Germanicsparwôsparrow
5Proto-Indo-Europeanspḗrsparrow

Words derived from “spatze”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European spḗr →Every word from Proto-Germanic sparwô →Every word from Proto-West Germanic sparwō →