Where does “spanna” come from?

spanna (Old High German) comes from Proto-Germanic spannō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend- — to stretch.

Ancestry of “spanna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspannōspan, handbreadth
2Proto-Indo-European(s)pend-to stretch

Words derived from “spanna”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend- →Every word from Proto-Germanic spannō →