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 === (Zürich) 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) ettis (Glarus) eppis äppis (Wallis) eswas (Wallis, cognate of "etwas") 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[1] (in German), volume 1, 1885, column 595 “öppis”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2026