From Middle English atspringen, ætspringen, from Old English ætspringan ("to rush forth, spurt out, spring out"), equivalent to at- + spring. Compare Dutch ontspringen ("to spring, well, outflow"), German entspringen ("to spring from, escape, arise").
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