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Where does “spǫnn” come from?
spǫnn (Old Norse) comes from Proto-Germanic spannō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend- — to stretch.
Ancestry of “spǫnn”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Germanic
spannō
span, handbreadth
2
Proto-Indo-European
(s)pend-
to stretch
Words derived from “spǫnn”
sponn
Spon
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend- →
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