spean
English
/spiːn/
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) A teat or nipple of a cow
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *spene inherited from Old English spane inherited from Proto-Germanic *spenô (nipple) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (teat, nipple, breast) borrowed from Dutch, Flemish speen (nipple, teat).
Origin
Dutch (Brabantic)
speen
Gloss
nipple, teat
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *pistanna Latin
- fopspeen Dutch, Flemish
- speen Dutch, Flemish
- spenen Dutch, Flemish
- παρθένος Ancient Greek
- στήνιον Ancient Greek
- *psten-os- Proto-Indo-European
- *pstḗn Proto-Indo-European
- *spanô Proto-Germanic
- *spenô Proto-Germanic
- spane Old English
- spanu Old English
- *spene Middle English
- speni Old Norse
- spendýr Icelandic
- speni Icelandic
- պստիկ Armenian
- spene Middle Dutch
- sine Old Irish
- sine Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- *sɸenyos Proto-Celtic
- *pstánas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- spenys Lithuanian
- pystʾn' Middle Persian
- päścane Tocharian B