Span
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "span"
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- As a Slovene surname, from župan (“head of a district”), from župa (“district”); compare Zupan.
- As a German surname, variant of Spahn; also Spann.
- As a Jewish surname from Span (“chip”) (probably through Yiddish).
Proper noun[edit]
Span (plural Spans)
- A surname.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Span”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German spān, from Old High German spān (“chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-West Germanic *spānu (“chip, shaving”). Cognate with Old English spōn (“piece of wood, chip”). More at spoon.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Span m (strong, genitive Spanes or Spans, plural Späne)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Span [masculine, strong]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Slovene
- English terms derived from German
- English terms derived from Yiddish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- Rhymes:German/aːn
- Rhymes:German/aːn/1 syllable
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns