The story
- Old Norse · derived fromspān-nȳr
- Middle English · inherited fromspan-neue
- English todayspan-new
From Middle English span-neue, from Old Norse spān-nȳr. Compare spick-and-span, spandy.
Words from the same roots
Old Norsespān-nȳr all →
spick-and-span
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.