English
spinonym
From spin + -onym.
Formed from spin + -onym
Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- ‘to twist’
Proto-Germanic *spinnaną ‘to spin’
Old English spinnan ‘to spin’
Middle English spinnen ‘to spin or convert fibre into yarn’
English spin
Today it means
noun A type of ambigram in which a word is written using the same glyph repeated in different orientations.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “spinonym”. 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.
Etymograph / spinonym