spryngen

• spring, springe, springen, springgen, springuen, sprinke, spryng, sprynge, spryngge, sprynggyn, sprynghe
• sprinken (Early Middle English)

Inherited from Old English springan, from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną; equivalent to spryng +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Compare sprengen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprinɡən/, /ˈsprinkən/

spryngen (third-person singular simple present spryngeth, present participle spryngynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative sprong, past participle sprungen)

1. To spring (burst forth, shoot out):
   1. To issue or gush (water from a water source)
   2. (of plants) To grow, sprout, or bear fruit or flowers.
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Mark 4:31-32, page 17v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        […] as a coꝛn of ſyneuei · which whãne it is ſowen in þe erþe .· is leſſe þan alle ſeedis þat ben in þe erþe / and whãne it is ſpꝛungen up · it wexiþ in to a tree · ⁊ is maad grettir þan alle erbis / and it makiþ grete bꝛaũchis .· ſo þat bꝛiddis of heuene moũ dwelle vndur þe ſchadewe þ̇ of /

        […] like a mustard seed, which is smaller than every [other] seed in the ground when it is sowed, / but after it has sprouted, it grows into a tree that's larger than all the plants and develops long branches so the birds in the sky can nest under its shade.

2. (by extension) To grow, emerge or develop:
   1. (of the sun) To rise; to emerge or appear.
   2. (of waves) To overflow or flood; to utterly envelop.
3. To move with great speed or energy; to dash:
   1. To spring (jump with great speed or energy).
   2. To shoot or spurt out; to emerge suddenly and quickly.
   3. To spring back; to return from a force.
4. To become or cause to become diffused; to spread.
   1. To become or cause to become known or disseminated.
   2. To establish or normalise; to become or make normal.
   3. To sprinkle or asperse; to spread in small drops or bits.
5. To happen or occur; to come to be.
6. To break into pieces; to fall apart.
7. (rare, of the heart) To skip a beat.
8. (rare) To promote or honour; to make exalted.

• sprengen
• spryng

• English: spring; sprink
• Scots: spring

• “springen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.