spean
verb
ˈspēn 
speaned; speaning; speans
transitive verb
chiefly Scotland
: wean
Word History
Etymology
Middle Scots spen, speane, probably going back to Old English *spennan, *spenian, going back to Germanic *spanjan- or *spanjōjan- (whence also Middle Dutch spenen "to wean," Middle Low German spenen, spennen, Middle High German spenen), verbal derivatives from the base of *spanōn-, *spanjōn- "teat, nipple" (whence Old English spane, spanu "teat," Middle Dutch spene, Middle Low German spene, spone, Old High German spunna, Old Norse speni), akin to Lithuanian spenỹs "nipple," Old Irish sine, probably altered from Indo-European *psten- "breast," whence Sanskrit stana- "breast, nipple," Avestan fštāna-, Greek stḗnion "breast"
First Known Use
1595, in the meaning defined above
- heiresses presumptive
- heiring
- heirless
- heirloom
- heirlooms
- heirmoi
- heirmos
- heirs
- heirs ab intestato
- heirs apparent
- heirs at law
- heirs general
- heirs of entail
- heirs of inventory
- heirs of line
- heirs of provision
- heirs portioners
- heirs presumptive
- heirs whatsoever
- heirship
- heirships
- Heisenberg
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- Heisenberg's principle
- heishe