spýja
Icelandic
/ˈspiːja/
verb-strong
Definitions
- to vomit
- to spit out, make gush forth
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse spýja inherited from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną derived 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
- spuo Latin
- Wasserspeier German
- anspeien German
- ausspeien German
- bespeien German
- speien German
- spuwen Dutch, Flemish
- плевать Russian
- πτύω Ancient Greek
- *(s)ptyew- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)ptyēw- Proto-Indo-European
- spy Norwegian Bokmål
- *spīwaną Proto-Germanic
- spy Swedish
- spy Norwegian Nynorsk
- spye Norwegian Nynorsk
- spiwan Old English
- spīwan Old English
- ष्ठीवति Sanskrit
- spewen Middle English
- spýja Old Norse
- *pľьvati Proto-Slavic
- φτύνω Greek (modern)
- spuwen Middle Dutch
- spīwan Old High German
- թուք Old Armenian
- թքանեմ Old Armenian
- թքնում Old Armenian
- spýggja Faroese
- 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *spīwan Old Dutch
- spiwan Old Saxon
- spīwan Old Saxon
- *spujō Proto-Italic
- пльвати Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *ṣṭʰíHwati Proto-Indo-Aryan
- spīa Old Frisian
- ту Ossetian, Ossetic