sparke

English

Noun

sparke (plural sparkes)

1. Obsolete form of spark.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And, as it fell, his steed he ready found:
     On whom remounting fiercely forth be rode,
     Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode

Anagrams

• Parkes, Pekars, Repkas, pakers

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sparc, sparck, spark, sperk, sperke

Etymology

From Old English spearca, from Proto-West Germanic *sparkō, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspark(ə)/, /ˈspɛrk(ə)/

Noun

sparke (plural sparkes or (early) sparken)

1. spark (glowing particle)
2. (by extension) particle, mote

Related terms

• sparkel
• sparken

Descendants

• English: spark (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: spark, sperk

References

• “spark(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sparka.

Verb

sparke (imperative spark, present tense sparker, passive sparkes, simple past and past participle sparka or sparket, present participle sparkende)

1. to kick
2. to fire, sack (terminate the employment of someone)

Derived terms

• sparkesykkel

Related terms

• spark (noun)

References

• “sparke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.