sputen

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German

Etymology

17th century, at first alongside spuden, both secondary adaptations of Middle Low German spôden, from Proto-West Germanic *spōdijan, derived from *spōdi (prosperity, success), itself from the verb *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (to prosper, succeed, be happy), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (to prosper, turn out well). The West Germanic verb had a cognate in Old High German spuoten, which however remained without continuation. Cognate with Dutch spoeden, English speed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpuːtən/
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Verb

sich sputen (weak, third-person singular present sputet sich, past tense sputete sich, past participle sich gesputet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (reflexive, literary, otherwise regional or slightly dated) to hurry, to make haste
    Synonym: beeilen

Conjugation

Further reading

  • sputen” in Duden online
  • sputen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Low German

Alternative forms

  • spoden (Dithmarschen)
  • spauden (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • speuten (Dorf Hahlen bei Minden in Westfalen)

Verb

sputen

  1. (reflexive) (to) hurry
    • 1861, Lüder Woort, Plattdeutsche Dichtungen, page 103:
      Gau rögt sik de Lüd
      Un sökt sik mit Flid
      Bir Arbeit to sputen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Middle English

Verb

sputen

  1. spouted, uttered
    • 14th century / 1864, Early English alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the fourteenth Century. Copied and edited from a unique Manuscript in the Library of the British Museum. With an Introduction, Notes, and glossarial Index, p. 63, l. 845, and p. 195:
      • Whatt! þay sputen & speken of so spitous fylþe,
      • Sputen = spouted, uttered, B. 845.