springe

• spreng

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

• IPA^(key): /spɹɪnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

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

1. (obsolete) To sprinkle; to scatter.
   • Chaucer

     He would sowen some difficulty, / Or springen cockle in our cleane corn.

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

springe (plural springes)

1. (obsolete) snare
   • 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 3 line 114

     Ay, springes to catch woodcocks

• 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, from Proto-Indo-European *spr̥g̑h.

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

1. jump, leap, spring
2. vault
3. bound
4. frisk, jump about
5. run
6. pop
7. scarper
8. back out
9. bounce
10. gush, spurt, play
11. break, snap,
12. burst, explode, go off

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

springe

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of springen

springe

1. First-person singular present of springen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of springen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of springen.
4. Imperative singular of springen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃpriŋə/

springe

1. to run
2. to jump

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• 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.

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