Old English · noun
spon
Normalised spōn
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine / feminine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /spoːn/
- Syllables
- spoːn (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- speunspuinspoonwoodenchipshaving
Meaning
-
a wooden chip or shaving
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peH-.
Descendants
speun, spoon, spuin
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