Spawn

Morpheme

Spawn

Type

free base

Denotation

expand, spread out, stretch

Etymology

Middle English spawnen; Anglo-Norman espaundre; Old French espandre; Latin expandere, from ex- + pandere

Evidence

despawn, frogspawn, hellspawn, respawn, spawn, spawnable, spawned, spawner, spawning, spawnkill, spawns, spawny, unspawned

Notes

spawn and expand are doublets

See Also

Pand