((s)pen-2), (s)pon-, (s)pondho-

    ((s)pen-2), (s)pon-, (s)pondho-

    English meaning: a kind of wooden vessel (pail)

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Holzeimer”, also gelegentlich von anderen Holzgeräten

    Note: related with sphē-, sphǝ- “langes, flaches bit of wood” (compare dessen -no-derivative Ger. Span).

    Material: Arm. p”and “vessel” (*phondho-); Lat. sponda “Bettstelle”; M.Ir. sonn m. “Pfosten, Pfeiler”, sonnaid ‘stößt, presses”, Welsh ffon f. ‘stick” (*spondhü); O.Ice. spann n. “ bucket, pail “ (Dan. spand “ bucket, pail “), M.L.G. span, -nnes “Holzeimer”, fat-span “ wooden vessel handle “ (Gmc. *spanna-, perhaps o-Ableit. an en-stem *spanan-, or from *spondhno- or *spon-u̯o-); O.C.S. spǫdъ “modius”; e-forms fehlen; Dutch spinde ‘speisekammer”, Ger. Spind ‘schrank” derive from M.Lat. *(dis)penda (Frings, Germania Romana 146).

    References: WP. II 662, WH. II 578.