speien
German (Berlin)
/ˈʃpaɪ̯ən/
verb-strong
Definitions
- to spit
- (euphemistic) to vomit
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German spīwan inherited from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną inherited from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (vomit, spit).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)ptyēw-
Gloss
vomit, spit
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bespew English
- spew English
- spewage English
- spewer English
- spewest English
- speweth English
- spewy English
- Wasser German
- Wasserspeier German
- anspeien German
- ausspeien German
- bespeien German
- spuwen Dutch, Flemish
- *(s)ptyēw- Proto-Indo-European
- spy Norwegian Bokmål
- *spīwaną Proto-Germanic
- spy Swedish
- spiwan Old English
- spīwan Old English
- spewen Middle English
- spýja Old Norse
- *pľьvati Proto-Slavic
- spýja Icelandic
- spuwen Middle Dutch
- spīwan Old High German
- spļaut Latvian
- spļaušana Latvian
- spļāviens Latvian
- spýggja Faroese
- 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *spīwan Old Dutch
- spiwan Old Saxon
- spīwan Old Saxon
- spiiwe Alemannic German
- spīa Old Frisian
- ту Ossetian, Ossetic