spon

• IPA^(key):

spon f

1. genitive plural of spona

• IPA^(key): /spɔn/

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• Hyphenation: spon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

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

spon f (plural sponnen, diminutive sponnetje n)

1. a bung
2. (obsolete) a bunghole

   Synonym: spongat

• spongat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

spon

1. singular past indicative of spinnen

spon

1. Alternative form of spone

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

• IPA^(key): /spuːn/

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

1. a chip, shaving
2. a wooden spoon

   Synonym: kveike

• spa
• spade
• spøne

• “spon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• snop

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

spōn m or f

1. a wooden chip or shaving

(when masculine)

(when feminine)

• sæpspōn

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

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “spōn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.