Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats. · A shoot; a sprout.
From Middle English sprete, from Old English sprēot (“pole, pike, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *spreut, related to Proto-West Germanic *sprutō (“shoot, sprout”). Cognate with West Frisian spriet (“sprit, spoke”), Dutch spriet (“a sprit, blade, spar, shoot, sprig”), Middle High German spriez (“sprout, twig”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionspreteenm
- Inherited-form mentionsprēotang · pole, pike, spear
- Inherited-form mention*spreutgem-pro
- Cognate mention*sprutōgmw-pro · shoot, sprout
- Cognate mentionsprietfy · sprit, spoke
- Cognate mentionsprietnl · a sprit, blade, spar, shoot, sprig
- Cognate mentionspriezgmh · sprout, twig
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