German edit

Etymology edit

17th century, at first alongside spuden, both secondary adaptations of Middle Low German spôden, from Proto-West Germanic *spōdijan, derived from *spōdi (prosperity, success), itself from the verb *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (to prosper, succeed, be happy), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (to prosper, turn out well). The West Germanic verb had a cognate in Old High German spuoten, which however remained without continuation. Cognate with Dutch spoeden, English speed.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpuːtən/
  • (file)

Verb edit

sich sputen (weak, third-person singular present sputet sich, past tense sputete sich, past participle sich gesputet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (reflexive, literary, otherwise regional or slightly dated) to hurry, to make haste
    Synonym: beeilen

Conjugation edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • sputen” in Duden online
  • sputen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Low German edit

Alternative forms edit

  • spoden (Dithmarschen)
  • spauden (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • speuten (Dorf Hahlen bei Minden in Westfalen)

Verb edit

sputen

  1. (reflexive) (to) hurry
    • 1861, Lüder Woort, Plattdeutsche Dichtungen, page 103:
      Gau rögt sik de Lüd
      Un sökt sik mit Flid
      Bir Arbeit to sputen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Middle English edit

Verb edit

sputen

  1. spouted, uttered
    • 14th century / 1864, Early English alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the fourteenth Century. Copied and edited from a unique Manuscript in the Library of the British Museum. With an Introduction, Notes, and glossarial Index, p. 63, l. 845, and p. 195:
      • Whatt! þay sputen & speken of so spitous fylþe,
      • Sputen = spouted, uttered, B. 845.