upspring

Meanings

Verb

• To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.

Noun

• An upstart.
• A spring or leap into the air.
• origin

Related

Similar words

• parvenu, upstart
• bound, jump, leap, spring

Origin

• From Middle English upspringen, from Old English uppspringan, ūpspringan, equivalent to up- + spring.
• From Middle English upspring, upspringe, from Old English upspring ("origin, birth, rising up, springing up"), equivalent to up- + spring. Cognate with Old Saxon upspring ("well; source; spring"), Middle Low German upspringen ("to spring up; grow").