Where does “שפּאַסיק” come from?

שפּאַסיק (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish שפּאַס, from Italian spasso, from Vulgar Latin expassare, from Latin expandō, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

שפּאַסיק (Yiddish): jocular, humorous

Definitions

  1. jocular, humorous

Ancestry of “שפּאַסיק”, step by step

שפּאַסיק traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Yiddish שפּאַס

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishשפּאַסjoke
2Italianspassofun; leisure; walk
3Vulgar Latinexpassare
4Latinexpandōto spread something out
5Latinpandōto spread or open (out), extend
6Latinpandusbend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked
7Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
8Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
9Proto-Italic-os
10Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

via Yiddish ־יק

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddish־יק-y, -ic
2Middle High German-ec
3Old High German-ig
4Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
5Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
6Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Latin -usEvery word from Latin pandus