Lexicon: span

Sunday, July 12, 2009

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Nederlands

span (n.) pair, duo, team
spannen (v.) clamp, fasten, strain, tense, tighten, tweak, twitch

Sranan

span (adj.) exciting, tense, tight, full; (n.) excitement, tension; (v.) tighten, stretch out

English

span (n.) distance between two supports of a structure; the structure so supported; the full extent, stretch, or reach of anything; (v.) to extend over or across

Sources:
= http://dictionary.sensagent.com
= http://www.sil.org/americas/suriname/Sranan/English/SrananEngDictIndex.html
= http://dictionary.reference.com

1 comments:

FSJL said...

There's also the relationship, visual and etymological, between span and spin.