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, 1999–2024

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