IPA(key): /ˈspɑr.kɑz/ *<span class="searchmatch">sparkaz</span> energetic, lively *sprakōną *sprēkijaz Old Norse: sprækr Icelandic: sprækur ⇒? <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-West <span class="searchmatch">Germanic</span>: *sparkō Old English:...
Uncertain. Perhaps from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Germanic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">sparkaz</span> (“lively, energetic”), from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *(s)prey-, *(s)per- (“to strew, spread, scatter, sow”)...