sterten

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English styrtan, from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (to startle, move, set in motion).

Verb

sterten

  1. to leap
    • c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
      Bulluc sterteth
      Bullock starts
  2. to start
  3. to begin

Descendants

  • English: start, sturt (dialectal)
  • Scots: stert, start
  • Yola: starth

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