öppis
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- öpis
Etymology
From Middle High German etewaz, through assimilation with the labial element in the sequence [tv], from Old High German eddes-hwaz. Compare Luxembourgish eppes and Pennsylvania German ebbes.
Pronunciation
- (Zurich) IPA(key): [ˈøpːis]
Pronoun
öppis
- something; anything
- Öppis fäält mer. ― I lack/need something. (literally, “Something is missing to me.”)
Declension
- Nom./Acc.: öppis
- Dat.: öppisem
Synonyms
- ötschis (Werdenberg)
- eppis
- ettis (Glarus)
- eswas (Wallis)
- näbis (Appenzell, some northern St. Gallen)
See also
- öpper
- öppe
Further reading
- "Säit öpper öppis? ötschwär ötschis? etter ettis? näber näbis? eswär eswas? einwär einwas?" on idiotikon.ch
- “etwas”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache (in German), volume 1, 1885, column 595
- “öppis”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2023