Noun: speen
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.
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[…] want Hij sloeg de lieden dier stad van den kleine tot den grote, en zij hadden spenen in de verborgene plaatsen. ([…] for He smote the people of that town from the small to the great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.)
Nouns inflected like speen
scheen,
bombeen,
linkerbeen,
wijnsteen,
penteen,
fenomeen,
klappersteen,
maalsteen,
Helleen,
Armeen,
schoorsteen,
epifenomeen,
zonneleen,
maansteen,
dijbeen,
zoemsteen,
niersteen,
rechterbeen,
hagelsteen,
bruikleen, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch spene, from Old Dutch *speno, from Frankish *spenō, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”).
Verbs referencing "speen"
English Nouns
spean.
Translations