spara

Old Swedish

verb

Definitions

to save, to store
to prevent, to deny
to spare (someone's life)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse spara inherited from Proto-Germanic *sparāną.

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*sparāną

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*sper- Proto-Indo-European
spare Norwegian Bokmål
*sparāną Proto-Germanic
spara Swedish
sparlåga Swedish
sparsam Swedish
spara Old Norse
spara Icelandic
sparēn Old High German
spara Faroese
*sparanjan Frankish