Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound. · Ejaculation of semen. · A shoot; a bud.
To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. · To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
From earlier spirt, sprit (“to sprout”), from Middle English sprytten, from Old English spryttan, from Proto-West Germanic *spruttjan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
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- Inherited-form mentionspryttenenm
- Inherited-form mentionspryttanang
- Inherited-form mention*spruttjangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*(s)per-ine-pro · to strew, sow, sprinkle
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