Where does “шпајзеваген” come from?
шпајзеваген (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German Speisewagen, from German Speise, from Middle High German spīse, from Old High German spīsa, from Latin spensa, from Latin expēnsa, from Latin expensus, from Latin expendere — stretch.
шпајзеваген (Serbo-Croatian): buffet car
Ancestry of “шпајзеваген”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Speisewagen | — |
| 2 | German | Speise | meal, fare |
| 3 | Middle High German | spīse | — |
| 4 | Old High German | spīsa | — |
| 5 | Latin | spensa | outlay for provisions, food |
| 6 | Latin | expēnsa | — |
| 7 | Latin | expensus | weighed; paid; judged |
| 8 | Latin | expendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 9 | Latin | expendo | I weigh; I pay out; I judge |
| 10 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 11 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 12 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 13 | Latin | tempore | ablative singular of tempus |
| 14 | Latin | tempus | time, period, age; season; kairos, right time,... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | tempos | stretch |