Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. · To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire. · A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *speyd-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”). The verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)) and Danish spidde.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*speyd-ine-pro
- Root classification mention*spey-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionspitenm
- Inherited-form mentionspituang · rod on which meat is cooked; spit
- Inherited-form mention*spitōgem-pro · rod; skewer; spike
- Derivation mention*speyd-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionspitnl
- Cognate mentionSpittnds · pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit
- Cognate mentionspidda
- Cognate mentionspettsv · skewer; spit; type of crowbar
- Inherited-form mentionspitenenm · to put on a spit; to impale
- Cognate mentionspetendum
- Cognate mentionspetennl
- Cognate mentionspetengml
- Cognate mentionspittennds
- Cognate mentionspießende · to skewer, to spear
- Cognate mentionspiddeda
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