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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to get up, arise”). Doublet of surgir.
Pronunciation
Verb
sourdre
- (formal, intransitive) to well up
Conjugation
- Almost exclusively used in the third person (singular and plural) of present and imperfect tenses.
Further reading
Old French
Etymology
From Latin surgere, present active infinitive of surgō.
Verb
sourdre
- to spurt; to gush (as in a liquid)
late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 394, line 703:Mult valt funteine ki ben surt- A fountain that spurts is very valuable
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sourdre)