sprong
See also: Sprong
English
Verb
sprong
- (archaic) simple past tense of spring
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; 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 960102938:
- And the whole family, therewith adredd,
Rashly out of their rouzed couches sprong
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Anagrams
- prongs
Dutch
Etymology
See springen (“to jump, leap”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sprɔŋ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔŋ
Noun
sprong m (plural sprongen, diminutive sprongetje n)
- jump, leap
Derived terms
- oorsprong
- voorsprong
- zijsprong
Verb
sprong
- singular past indicative of springen
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sprɔŋ/
Verb
sprong
- (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
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