spane
See also: Späne
English
Verb
spane (third-person singular simple present spanes, present participle spaning, simple past and past participle spaned)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To wean; to spean.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spane in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Aspen, NAPEs, Snape, aspen, napes, neaps, panes, peans, snape, sneap, spean
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspanɛ/, [ˈspanə]
Participle
spane
- inflection of spany:
- nominative and accusative singular neuter
- nominative and accusative plural
Middle English
Noun
spane
- Alternative form of spanne
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *spanô, *spenô. See English spean.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspɑne/
Noun
spane f
- (anatomy) teat
Inflection
Declension of spane (weak)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spane | spanan |
| accusative | spanan | spanan |
| genitive | spanan | spanena |
| dative | spanan | spanum |
Related terms
- spanu
Descendants
- Middle English: *spane, *spene
- English: spene, speen (dialectal)