Spiine

Alemannic German

Etymology

Borrowed from a Romance language. Compare regional Serbo-Croatian špina (“faucet”), borrowed from Venetian spina.

Noun

Spiine f

1. (Uri) faucet, spigot

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 24.