spiþra

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Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-.

Noun[edit]

spīþra m

spider

Declension[edit]

Declension of spiþra (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	spīþra	spīþran
accusative	spīþran	spīþran
genitive	spīþran	spīþrena
dative	spīþran	spīþrum

Synonyms[edit]

ātorcoppe

Descendants[edit]

Middle English: spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer
- English: spider

References[edit]

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “spīþra”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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