Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. · To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers. · To bring forth in general. · To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).
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