sprong

Verb

sprong

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of spring
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     Like to the cruel brothers of the earth,
     Sprong of the teeth of Dragons venemous,
     Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
     And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And the whole family, therewith adredd,
     Rashly out of their rouzed couches sprong

Anagrams

• prongs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprɔŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch sprong, from Old Dutch sprunc, from Proto-West Germanic *sprung; cognate with German Sprung. An ablauted (zero-grade) verbal noun of springen (“to jump, leap”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprɔŋ/

Verb

sprong

1. (dialectal) alternative form of sprang; past tense of springa
   • 1647, “LAnte oster Kraakelund”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 42:

     Op sprong Sporvin løstoug og gla

     Up sprang the sparrow, merr and happy