Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into the River Lochy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A teat or nipple of a cow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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verb
Archaic form of spane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
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History
From Middle English *spene, *spane, from Old English spane, spanu (“teat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spanu, *spenu, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast; teat”). Cognate with West Frisian spien (“nipple”), Dutch speen (“nipple”), Danish spene (“teat”), Swedish spene (“teat, nipple, dug”), Icelandic speni (“teat”). Alternatively a borrowing from Dutch speen (“nipple, teat”), from the same Proto-Germanic origin as above.
From Middle English spanen (“to wean”); see spane.
