An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Spange

by Friedrich Kluge

Spange, feminine, ‘clasp, buckle, bracelet,’ from the equivalent Middle High German spange; Old High German spanga, feminine; a common Teutonic term; compare Old Icelandic spǫng, Anglo-Saxon spange, ‘clasp’ (to which English spangle, properly a diminutive, is allied), Dutch spang. Its early history is obscure.