Gespann

Meaning

1. team (of yoked animals)
2. a group of close partners, especially a pair of two
3. horse and cart, horse and carriage; oxcart
4. a caravan of connected vehicles
5. a lath framework

Concepts

team

couple

👫

crew

dyad

squad

squadron

Synonyms

Paar

zwei Menschen

Duo

Joch

Liebespaar

👫

Mannschaft

Riege

Streich

Team

vertragen

Wurf

Zug

🚋

Kollektiv

Pärchen

Schiffsmannschaft

Schuss

Dezernat

schlecht bekommen

Crew

Turnriege

Geschirr

häßlich

Hyphenated as

Ge‧spann

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡəˈʃpan/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: gespan

Inherited from Old High German: gespan

Cognate with Middle Dutch: gespan

Cognate with Dutch: gespan

Cognate with Old English: ġespan

Cognate with English: span

In summary

From Middle High German gespan (“clasp; frame, welt”), from Old High German gespan (“clasp; chain, bracelet”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *spannaną. Equivalent to ge- (collective prefix) + spannen (“to span, yoke”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch gespan (“clasp; pair; troup”), whence modern Dutch gespan, and Old English ġespan (“joining, fastening together; clasp; yoke”), whence probably modern English span (“pair of horses”). The original sense present in all of the old languages seems to be “clasp, device for joining”. The sense “people or animals joined together” apparently only since the 16th century in High German, but in Dutch at least since the 14th century.