Etymograph

English

spawnling

From spawn + -ling.

Formed from spawn + -ling

Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- ‘to spread out’

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Latin expandō ‘stretch out’

Old French espandre

Anglo-Norman espaundre

Middle English spawnen

English spawn

Today it means

noun A creature newly spawned.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “spawnling”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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