sterten
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English sturtan, from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”).
VerbEdit
sterten
- to leap
- c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
- Bulluc sterteth
- c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
- to start
- to begin
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “sterten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.