speen
See also: Speen
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch spene, from Old Dutch *speno, from Frankish *spenō, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editspeen f (plural spenen, diminutive speentje n)
- A teat, a nipple.
- Synonym: tepel
- A dummy, a pacifier.
- Synonym: fopspeen
- A nozzle for bottle-feeding.
- (archaic) A hemorrhoid.
- 1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.
- […] want Hij sloeg de lieden dier stad van den kleine tot den grote, en zij hadden spenen in de verborgene plaatsen.
- […] for He smote the people of that town from the small to the great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.
- Synonym: aambei
- 1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Afrikaans: speen
Yola
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English *spene, from Old English spane, from Proto-West Germanic *spanu.
Noun
editspeen
- spean
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
- Na speen to be multh, nar flaase to be shaure.
- no teat to be milked, nor fleece to be shorn.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editspeen
- Alternative form of zpeen (“to spend”)
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69
Categories:
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms inherited from Frankish
- Dutch terms derived from Frankish
- Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːn
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːn/1 syllable
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Dutch terms with archaic senses
- Dutch terms with quotations
- Yola terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yola terms inherited from Middle English
- Yola terms derived from Middle English
- Yola terms inherited from Old English
- Yola terms derived from Old English
- Yola terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Yola terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Yola lemmas
- Yola nouns
- Yola terms with quotations
- Yola verbs