any item or substance intended for human consumption (excluding drugs other than alcohol), food, comestible · groceries; roughly, though not usually including housewares
köken: From Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expēnsus, from expendere. Compare Sicilian spisa, Venetan spexa, Romansh spaisa, spesa, Friulian spese, Ladin speisa, spëisa, Piedmontese spèisa, Old French espoise.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit किरिआण n (kiriāṇa, “goods for sale”), from Sanskrit क्रयाणक (krayāṇaka, “goods for sale”), from the root क्री (krī, “to buy”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷreyh₂- (“to buy”). Related to क्रय (kray) and कीनना (kīnnā).