springe

• IPA^(key): /spɹɪnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Inherited from Middle English sprengen, from Old English sprengen, sprenċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprangijan, from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną (“to cause to spring”). See sprinkle.

springe (third-person singular simple present springes, present participle springing or springeing, simple past and past participle springed)

1. (obsolete) To sprinkle; to scatter.

Inherited from Middle English spreng, a variant of spring with the form of sprengen.

springe (plural springes)

1. (obsolete) A snare.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 114:

     Ay, springes to catch woodcocks

   • 1614: The Odysses of Homer by George Chapman, book 23 line 594

     Look how a mavis, or a pigeòn, / In any grove caught with a springe or net

   • 1714: The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, 2nd edn., canto 2 line 25

     With hairy Sprindges we the Birds betray

   • c. 1799, William Wordsworth, The Prelude‎, London: Moxon, published 1850, Book 1, Introduction, p. 16:

     ’twas my joy / With store of springes o’er my shoulder hung / To range the open heights where woodcocks run / Along the smooth green turf.

springe (third-person singular simple present springes, present participle springing or springeing, simple past and past participle springed)

1. (transitive) To catch in a springe; to ensnare.

• Persing, Spigner, pingers

• schpringe

From Middle High German springen, from Old High German springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną. Cognate with German springen, Dutch springen, English spring, Icelandic springa.

springe (third-person singular simple present springt, past participle gsprunge, auxiliary sii)

1. to run
2. to jump, leap
   • 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     Bisch du de nit ids Wasser gschprunge?

     So you didn't jump into the water?

3. to burst

From Old Danish springæ, from Old Norse springa, from Proto-Germanic *springaną, cognate with English spring and German springen.

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springe (imperative spring, present springer, past sprang, past participle sprunget, sprungen or sprungne)

1. jump, leap, spring
2. run, spurt
3. burst, explode, go off

• “springe” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “springe” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

springe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of springen

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springe

1. inflection of springen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃpriŋə/

springe

1. to run
2. to jump

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

springe

1. Alternative form of spryng

springe

1. Alternative form of sprengen

springe

1. Alternative form of spryngen

From Old Norse springa.

springe (imperative spring, present tense springer, passive springes, simple past sprang, past participle sprunget, present participle springende)

1. to bound, jump, leap
2. to run
3. to blow up, burst, explode, (cork) pop
4. (liquids) to gush, spout, squirt
5. (flowers) to bud, open, bloom, blossom

• springbrett

• “springe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “springe” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• springa (a infinitive)

From Old Norse springa.

• IPA^(key): /²sprɪŋːə/

springe (present tense spring, past tense sprang, past participle sprunge, passive infinitive springast, present participle springande, imperative spring)

1. to run
2. to leap, jump
3. to burst open

• springbrett

• “springe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprin.ɡe/,

springe

1. dative singular of spring

From Old Frisian springa, from Proto-Germanic *springaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprɪŋə/

springe

1. to jump

• “springe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011