sprent

Meanings

Verb

• To leap; bound; move quickly; dart
• Past of springe

Adjective

• sprinkled

Origin

• From Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną ("to jump up; bounce"), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *sper- ("to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick"). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen ("to sprinkle; splash"), Swedish spritta ("to startle"), Icelandic spretta ("to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop").
• From Middle English spreynt, spreind, yspreynd, past participle of Middle English sprengen ("to sprinkle"), from Old English sprengan ("to cause to spring; scatter"), from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną, causative of *springaną. More at spring.