• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪnə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: spin‧nen
• Rhymes: -ɪnən

From Middle Dutch spinnen, from Old Dutch *spinnan, from Proto-West Germanic *spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną.

spinnen

1. to spin: make yarn by twisting and winding fibres together

• Afrikaans: spin
• Jersey Dutch: spänne
• Negerhollands: spin

spinnen

1. to purr
2. to tell stories, fib, lie
3. to whirr

spinnen

1. plural of spin

From Middle High German spinnen, from Old High German spinnan, from Proto-West Germanic *spinnan.

Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, English spin, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna, Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (spinnan).

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• Rhymes: -ɪnən

spinnen (class 3 strong or weak, third-person singular present spinnt, past tense spann or (also) sponn or (colloquial) spinnte, past participle gesponnen or (colloquial) gespinnt, past subjunctive spänne or spönne, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to spin (a thread, a web, a cocoon, etc.)
   • 1910, Karl May, Mein Leben und Streben‎^[1]:

     Die Mutter meiner Mutter scheuerte für die Leute und spann Watte.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (transitive, figuratively) to develop, extend (a thought, story, etc.)
3. (transitive, thus especially) to exaggerate (an event), to fabricate (something untrue)
4. (intransitive, informal) to act or talk strangely, foolishly, (of a machine also) to malfunction
5. (intransitive, informal) to be crazy, to freak out
6. (intransitive, regional, of a cat) to purr

   Synonym: (the normal word) schnurren

• The verb is generally strong. The prescribed preterite is spann, but sponn (which avoids the homonymy with spannen) is widely attestable in edited sources.
• The weak forms spinnte, gespinnt are heard alternatively in the informal senses “be crazy, act strangely”. (The preterite spinnte is rarely met with also in other senses.)

• Spinne
• Spinner

• “spinnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “spinnen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “spinnen” in Duden online
• “spinnen” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old Dutch *spinnan.

spinnen

1. to spin, to make yarn by twisting and winding fibres together
2. to spin (web, silk etc.)

• Dutch: spinnen
• Limburgish: spinne

• “spinnen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “spinnen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• spynnen, spynne, spinne, spynen, spenen, spynnyn, spyn

From Old English spinnan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspinən/

spinnen

1. To spin or convert fibre into yarn.
   • 1381 June 12, John Ball, Sermon at Blackheath:

     Whan Adam dalf, and Eve span; / Wo was thanne a gentilman?

     When Adam delved and Eve spun; / Who was a nobleman then?

2. To make fabric or fabric garments out of fibre.
3. To make a spiderweb or cobweb.
4. To go in a hurry; to sprint.
5. To select or decide an individual's fate.
6. (rare) To flow forth with haste.

• spynnere
• spynnestere
• spynnynge

• English: spin
• Scots: spin

• “spinnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-25.

spinnen

1. plural of spin