spane
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of spane
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(UK, dialectal, obsolete)To wean; to spean.
“to spane a child”
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:spane.”
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Etymology
From Middle English spanen, probably from Middle Dutch spanen, spenen or Middle Low German spānen, spēnen, spōnen (“to wean”), ultimately from the merger of Proto-West Germanic *spanōn and *spannjan, from…
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From Middle English spanen, probably from Middle Dutch spanen, spenen or Middle Low German spānen, spēnen, spōnen (“to wean”), ultimately from the merger of Proto-West Germanic *spanōn and *spannjan, from Proto-Germanic *spanōną and *spanjaną (“to wean”), from Proto-Germanic *spanō, *spenô (“teat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast; teat”). Cognate with Dutch spenen (“to wean”), German spänen (“to wean”), Old French espanir (“to wean”) (from Germanic).
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