Where does “[[spinnel]], [[spinele]]” come from?
[[spinnel]], [[spinele]] (Middle High German) comes from Old High German [[spinnila]], [[spinnela]], [[spinnala]], [[spinula]], from Proto-West Germanic spinnilu, from Proto-West Germanic spinnan, from Proto-Germanic spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pénh₁-ne-, from Proto-Indo-European (s)penh₁- — to twist; to weave.
Ancestry of “[[spinnel]], [[spinele]]”, step by step