Speise

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See also: speise and spéise

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German spīse, from Old High German spīsa, from Proto-West Germanic *spīsā.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

Speise f (genitive Speise, plural Speisen)

  1. meal, fare (food)
    Speisen und Getränken. ― food and drinks.
    • 1907, Jakob Wassermann, Die Schwestern, Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, page 24:
      Bald fing Philipp an, Trank und Speise von sich zu weisen,…
      Philipp soon started refusing drink and food,…
    aus Speis und Trank wird Scheiß und Gschtank

Declension

Declension of Speise
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Speise die Speisen
genitive einer der Speise der Speisen
dative einer der Speise den Speisen
accusative eine die Speise die Speisen

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References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Speise”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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