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

1. 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^[1] (in German), volume 1, 1885, column 595
• “öppis”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2024