sparke
See also: Sparke
English edit
Noun edit
sparke (plural sparkes)
- Obsolete form of spark.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And, as it fell, his steed he ready found:
On whom remounting fiercely forth be rode,
Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode
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Etymology edit
From Old English spearca, from Proto-West Germanic *sparkō, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sparke (plural sparkes or (early) sparken)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “spark(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Verb edit
sparke (imperative spark, present tense sparker, passive sparkes, simple past and past participle sparka or sparket, present participle sparkende)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- spark (noun)
References edit
- “sparke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.