Etymograph

English

faspa

Faspa comes from Plautdietsch Faspa.

  1. PlautdietschmodernFaspa
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988faspa

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. PlautdietschmodernFaspa
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988faspa

Earliest quotation: 1988, Al Reimer, Coming in Out of the Cold,: “Occasionally I found myself sitting at the Sunday Faspa…”

Today it means

noun A light afternoon meal, observed in Mennonite tradition.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Plautdietsch Faspa / faspa