"späd" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [Swedish]

Etymology: From Old Swedish spædher, from Proto-Germanic *spaþja- or Proto-Germanic *spadja-. Probably originally in the meaning of "thin" or "extended in length," therefore ultimately from the root of spänna (“to pull, tighten, span, stretch thin”). Cognate with Danish spæd. Etymology templates: {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|spædher}} Old Swedish spædher, {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*spaþja-}} Proto-Germanic *spaþja-, {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*spadja-}} Proto-Germanic *spadja-, {{cog|da|spæd}} Danish spæd Head templates: {{head|sv|adjective|||comparative|spädare|superlative|spädast|f2accel-form=comparative|f3accel-form=superlative|head=|sort=}} späd (comparative spädare, superlative spädast), {{sv-adj}} späd (comparative spädare, superlative spädast) Forms: spädare [comparative], spädast [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], späd [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, positive], spädare [comparative, error-unrecognized-form, indefinite], spädast [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, superlative], spätt [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], spädare [comparative, indefinite, neuter, singular], spädast [indefinite, neuter, singular, superlative], späda [indefinite, plural, positive], spädare [comparative, indefinite, plural], spädast [indefinite, plural, superlative], späde [archaic, indefinite, masculine, plural, positive], spädare [archaic, comparative, indefinite, masculine, plural], spädast [archaic, indefinite, masculine, plural, superlative], späde [definite, masculine, positive, singular], spädare [comparative, definite, masculine, singular], spädaste [definite, masculine, singular, superlative], späda [definite, error-unrecognized-form, positive], spädare [comparative, definite, error-unrecognized-form], spädaste [definite, error-unrecognized-form, superlative]
  1. small, thin, tender, delicate
    Sense id: en-späd-sv-adj-pgSp7QQz Categories (other): Size Disambiguation of Size: 100 0 0
  2. young
    Sense id: en-späd-sv-adj-27qSHOIF Categories (other): Age Disambiguation of Age: 0 100 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: späda, spädbarn, spädgris

Verb [Swedish]

Etymology: From Old Swedish spædher, from Proto-Germanic *spaþja- or Proto-Germanic *spadja-. Probably originally in the meaning of "thin" or "extended in length," therefore ultimately from the root of spänna (“to pull, tighten, span, stretch thin”). Cognate with Danish spæd. Etymology templates: {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|spædher}} Old Swedish spædher, {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*spaþja-}} Proto-Germanic *spaþja-, {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*spadja-}} Proto-Germanic *spadja-, {{cog|da|spæd}} Danish spæd Head templates: {{head|sv|verb form}} späd
  1. imperative of späda Tags: form-of, imperative Form of: späda
    Sense id: en-späd-sv-verb-PKoMXfPx Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 0 93 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 0 97 Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 6 4 91

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for späd meaning in All languages combined (5.4kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (9a214a4 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.