sterten
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English styrtan, from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”).
Verb
editsterten
- to leap
- c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
- Bulluc sterteth
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
- to start
- to begin
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “sterten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.