spean

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A teat or nipple of a cow. archaic,dialectal
    — The Genital part is all nervy; the Tail ſmall; and the Hind hath Udders betwixt her Thighs, with four Speans or Tets, like a Cow.
动词 v.
  1. Archaic form of spane. alt-of,archaic
    — 1899, Colville, Vernacular, page 15, Beginning life as a grice, the pig when speaned became a shot.

词形变化

speans plural spane alternative,Scotland spene alternative,Kent speen alternative,Kent spaine alternative,obsolete speane alternative,obsolete speans present,singular,third-person speaning participle,present speaned participle,past speaned past spane alternative,Scotland spene alternative,Kent speen alternative,Kent spaine alternative,obsolete speane alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *spene, *spane, from Old English spane, spanu (“teat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spanu, *spenu, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast; teat”). Cognate with West Frisian spien (“nipple”), Dutch speen (“nipple”), Danish spene (“teat”), Swedish spene (“teat, nipple, dug”), Icelandic speni (“teat”).
Alternatively a borrowing from Dutch speen (“nipple, teat”), from the same Proto-Germanic origin as above.
词源 2
From Middle English spanen (“to wean”); see spane.
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