Where does “spit” come from?

spit (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-Germanic spitą, from Proto-Indo-European spey- — sharp point, stick.

Ancestry of “spit”, step by step

spit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic spitą

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspitąrod; spike; skewer
2Proto-Indo-Europeanspey-sharp point, stick

via Proto-Germanic spituz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspituzrod; stick; spit
2Proto-Indo-Europeanspid-—

Words derived from “spit”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European spey- →