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spinna

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Bavarian

Etymology

From Old High German spinnan, from Proto-West Germanic *spinnan. Compare German spinnen, Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, English spin, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (spinnan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃb̥inɐ/
  • Hyphenation: spin‧na

Verb

spinna (past participle gspunna)

  1. to act or talk strangely, foolishly
  2. to be crazy, to freak out
  3. to malfunction (of a machine)

Conjugation

More information infinitive, past participle ...

Derived terms

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse spinna, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną. Cognate with Icelandic spinna, Swedish spinna, Norwegian Bokmål spinne, Norwegian Nynorsk spinna, spinne, Danish spinde, English spin, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, German Low German spinnen.

Pronunciation

Verb

spinna (third person singular past indicative spann, third person plural past indicative spunnu, supine spunnið)

  1. To spin.

Conjugation

More information infinitive, supine ...

1Only the past participle being declined.

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse spinna, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną. Cognate with Faroese spinna, Swedish spinna, Norwegian Bokmål spinne, Norwegian Nynorsk spinna, spinne, Danish spinde, English spin, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, German Low German spinnen.

Pronunciation

Verb

spinna (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative spann, third-person plural past indicative spunnu, supine spunnið)

  1. To spin. [with accusative]

Conjugation

More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information strong declension (sterk beyging), singular (eintala) ...

Derived terms

  • spinna upp
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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *spinnaną.

Verb

spinna (singular past indicative spann, plural past indicative spunnu, past participle spunninn)

  1. to spin

Conjugation

More information infinitive, present participle ...

Descendants

  • Icelandic: spinna
  • Faroese: spinna
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: spinna, spinne
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spinne
  • Old Swedish: spinna
  • Danish: spinde

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “spinna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse spinna, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną.

Verb

spinna

  1. To spin.

Conjugation

More information present, past ...

Descendants

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish spinna, from Old Norse spinna, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną. Cognate with Faroese spinna, Icelandic spinna, Norwegian Bokmål spinne, Norwegian Nynorsk spinna, spinne, Danish spinde, English spin, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, German Low German spinnen. Compare Finnish kehrätä.

Verb

spinna (present spinner, preterite spann, supine spunnit, imperative spinn)

  1. to spin (turn around quickly)
  2. to spin (make yarn or thread)
    spinna garn
    spin yarn
    Spindeln spinner ett nät
    The spider spins a web
  3. (figuratively, with vidare (“on”)) to mentally further develop (a story, theme, idea, or the like); to extend, to continue, to build on, to expand on, etc.
    spinna vidare på en historia
    extend a story [take a story and develop it further]
    Vi spann vidare på samma tema
    We continued [spun on] with the same theme
  4. to purr (of a cat)
    Synonym: kurra
    Katter spinner när de njuter
    Cats purr when they are enjoying themselves

Conjugation

More information active, passive ...

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

References

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