Where does “spel” come from?

spel (Swedish) comes from Old Swedish spill, from Middle Low German spille, from German spinnila, from Proto-West Germanic spinnilu, from Proto-West Germanic spinnan, from Proto-Germanic spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pénh₁-ne-, from Proto-Indo-European (s)penh₁- — to twist; to weave.

spel (Swedish): a play, a game; a person's or animal's happy,...

Definitions

  1. a play, a game; a person's or animal's happy,...

Ancestry of “spel”, step by step

spel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Swedish spill

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Swedishspill—
2Middle Low Germanspille—
3Germanspinnila—
4Proto-West Germanicspinniluspindle
5Proto-West Germanicspinnanto spin
6Proto-Germanicspinnanąto spin
7Proto-Indo-European(s)pénh₁-ne-—
8Proto-Indo-European(s)penh₁-to twist; to weave

via Old Swedish spil

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Swedishspil—
2Middle Low Germanspilnoun
3Old Saxonspil—
4Proto-West Germanicspildance; game, exercise

Words derived from “spel”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)penh₁- →