Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗adj
Available on the spot; for immediate payment or delivery. · Exact; precise.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify. · To loan a small amount of money to someone. · To stain; to leave a spot (on). · To cover with spots, to speckle.
From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.
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- Inherited-form mentionspotenm
- Derivation mentionspottedum · spot, speck
- Inherited-form mentionsplotenm
- Inherited-form mentionsplottang · spot, plot of land
- Inherited-form mention*splottgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*spluttazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*splt-no-ine-pro
- Derivation mention*(s)pel-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionspotfrr · speck, piece of ground
- Cognate mentionspotnds · speck
- Cognate mentionspottinon · small piece
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