spean

== English == === Alternative forms === spane (Scotland) spene, speen (Kent) spaine, speane (obsolete) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /spiːn/ Rhymes: -iːn === Etymology 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. ==== Noun ==== spean (plural speans) (archaic or dialectal) A teat or nipple of a cow. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English spanen (“to wean”); see spane. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /spiːn/ ==== Verb ==== spean (third-person singular simple present speans, present participle speaning, simple past and past participle speaned) Archaic form of spane. 1899, Colville, Vernacular, page 15, Beginning life as a grice, the pig when speaned became a shot. === Anagrams === Aspen, NAPEs, Panes, Snape, aspen, napes, neaps, panes, peans, snape, sneap, spane