Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To gush forth in a jet or stream · To eject water or liquid in a jet. · To speak tediously or pompously. · To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. · A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”). · A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force. · A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.
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- Inherited-form mentionspoutenenm
- Derivation mentionspoitendum
- Cognate mentionspuitennl
- Derivation mention*spūtenodt
- Derivation mention*spīwattjangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*spīwatjanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionsprutasv · squirt, syringe
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