Where does “spisebrikke” come from?
spisebrikke (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål spise, from Danish spise, from Middle Low German spīse, from Old Saxon spīsa, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere, from Latin expendo.
spisebrikke (Norwegian Bokmål): a place mat
Ancestry of “spisebrikke”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | spise | to eat |
| 2 | Danish | spise | food; dish; to eat |
| 3 | Middle Low German | spīse | — |
| 4 | Old Saxon | spīsa | — |
| 5 | Latin | expēnsa | — |
| 6 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 7 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 8 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 9 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 10 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 11 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 12 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 13 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 14 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 19 | Middle English | kyt | — |