inflection of spannen: · first/third-person singular subjunctive I · singular imperative
çekim: çoğul Spannen · tamlayan Spannen
köken: From Middle High German spanne, from Old High German spanna, from Proto-Germanic *spannō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”). Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, English span.
spand, span (imperial measurement equivalent to nine inches)
çekim: çoğul empans
köken: From Old French espan with change of prefix to em-; borrowed from Frankish *spanna, from Proto-Germanic *spānnõ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”). Cognate with English span.
thumb, the innermost finger · inch · pintle (jointed pivot of a hinge, consisting of the pin and the non-moving leaf)
çekim: çoğul duimen
köken: From Middle Dutch dume, from Old Dutch *thūmo, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô. Compare West Frisian tomme, Low German Dumen, German Daumen, English thumb, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme.
palmo, a traditional unit of length about equal to 22 cm · square palmo, a traditional unit of area about equal to 480 cm² · cubic palmo, a traditional unit of volume about equal to 10.6 L, particularly used in measuring masonry
çekim: çoğul palmos
köken: From Latin palmus, from palma. Doublet of palma. Cognate with Spanish and Galician palmo and Catalan pam and palm.
uncia, a coin of the Roman Republic equal to 1/12 as · inch, a length unit, equal to 1/12 of one foot · An insignificantly small length
çekim: çoğul ū̆nciae · tamlayan ū̆nciae
köken: Building upon Varro, most modern Latinists derive this word from ūnicus (“unique”) + -ia, itself from ūnus (“one”) (from Proto-Indo-European *óynos) in the sense of twelfths making up the base unit of various ancient systems of measurement. Following Heron of Alexandria, Weiss instead postulates a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀγκία (onkía, “uncia”), from ὄγκος (ónkos, “weight”); he considers the…