spon

See also: Spon, spón, spön, and şpon

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspon]

Noun

spon f

1. genitive plural of spona

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: spon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spont, from Italian spunta, from Latin expunctum.

Noun

spon f (plural sponnen, diminutive sponnetje n)

1. a bung
2. (obsolete) a bunghole

   Synonym: spongat

Derived terms

• spongat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

spon

1. singular past indicative of spinnen

Middle English

Noun

spon

1. alternative form of spone

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse spánn, spónn, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz. Akin to English spoon.

(wooden spoon): Attested in Søren Fermann’s Tinn dialect glossary from ca. 1760 and in Pontoppidan’s Glossarium Norvagicum (1749) spelled as Spœn(e).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spuːn/

Noun

spon m (definite singular sponen, indefinite plural sponar, definite plural sponane)

1. a chip, shaving
2. a wooden spoon

   Synonym: kveike

Inflection

Historical inflection of spon

		singular		plural
		indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
1901		ein spon	sponen	sponar or spøner (spønir)	sponarne (sponane) or spønerne (spønine)
1917		ein spon	sponen	sponar	sponane

• Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
• Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
• Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.

Derived terms

• filspon
• høvelspon
• jarnspon
• sponplate
• spontak
• spøne
• takspon

Related terms

• spa
• spade
• spøne

References

• “spon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “spon” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• Oddvar Nes (1994). Ei ordsamling frå Tinn, published in Helsing til Lars Vassenden.
• Erik Pontoppidan (1749), Glossarium Norvagicum (in Danish), page 100

Anagrams

• snop

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂-.

Noun

spōn m or f

1. a wooden chip or shaving

Declension

(when masculine) Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	spōn	spōnas
accusative	spōn	spōnas
genitive	spōnes	spōna
dative	spōne	spōnum

(when feminine) Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	spōn	spōna, spōne
accusative	spōne	spōna, spōne
genitive	spōne	spōna
dative	spōne	spōnum

Derived terms

• sæpspōn

Descendants

• Middle English: spone, spon, sponne, spoon, spoun, spoune, spun, spune
  • English: spoon
  • Geordie: spuin, speun
  • Scots: spuin, spin, spon, spone, spun, spune
  • Yola: spone

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “spōn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.