Where does “specierīe” come from?
specierīe (Middle High German) comes from Italian spezieria, from Italian spezia, from Italian spezie, from German Spezies, from Latin speciēs, from Latin speciō, from Proto-Italic spekjō, from Proto-Indo-European spéḱyeti — to see, to look, to observe.
Ancestry of “specierīe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | spezieria | grocer's (shop); grocery |
| 2 | Italian | spezia | singular of spezie; a spice; third-person... |
| 3 | Italian | spezie | spices |
| 4 | German | Spezies | species |
| 5 | Latin | speciēs | seeing, view, look |
| 6 | Latin | speciō | to observe, watch, look at |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | spekjō | to observe, to see |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | spéḱyeti | to be looking at, to keep looking at |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | speḱ- | to see, to look, to observe |