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spring

/spˈɹɪŋ/SPRING
/spˈɹɪŋ/SPRING

Meaningleap

Common meaning: move suddenly or leap

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SPARG‘crack, split, crackle, spring’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 442, p. 746 · scan
  2. Old Englishversion‘leap’source
  3. Middle Englishspringen‘leap’source
  4. Englishspring‘move suddenly or leap’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Old English version ‘leap’.

Roots

Building blocks are an automatic split · open in app