épargner
French
verb
Definitions
- to save (time, money etc.)
- to save, spare (someone from something)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French espargnier derived from Frankish *sparanjan derived from Proto-Germanic *sparāną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sparāną
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- donut spare English
- forspare English
- nonspare English
- spare English
- spareable English
- spareful English
- spareless English
- sparely English
- spareness English
- sparer English
- sparest English
- spareth English
- spary English
- unspare English
- Spareinlage German
- Sparpolitik German
- Sparschwein German
- aussparen German
- kaputtsparen German
- sparen German
- sparsam German
- zusammensparen German
- sparagnare Italian
- *sper- Proto-Indo-European
- *sparāną Proto-Germanic
- spare Middle English
- spáráil Irish
- spara Old Norse
- spare Danish
- espargnier Old French
- sparēn Old High German
- sparar Ido
- êpaîngni Norman
- sparn Middle High German
- espargner Middle French
- 士啤 Chinese
- *sparanjan Frankish