upspring

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English upspringen, from Old English uppspringan, ūpspringan, equivalent to up- +‎ spring.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/

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Verb

upspring (third-person singular simple present upsprings, present participle upspringing, simple past upsprang or upsprung, past participle upsprung)

1. (intransitive) To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.
   • 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Timbuctoo:

     In diamond light upspring the dazzling peaks Of Pyramids

   • 1879, Charles Morris, Historical Tales:

     Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?

Synonyms

• (spring up): spring, spring up, sprout, arise, be born, come into existence; see also Thesaurus:come into being

Derived terms

• upspringing
• upsprung

Etymology 2

From Middle English upspring, upspringe, from Old English upspring (“origin, birth, rising up, springing up”), equivalent to up- +‎ spring. Cognate with Old Saxon upspring (“well; source; spring”), Middle Low German upspringen (“to spring up; grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌpspɹɪŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

upspring (plural upsprings)

1. A spring or leap into the air.
2. origin

Synonyms

• (upstart): parvenu, upstart
• (a spring or leap into the air): bound, jump, leap, spring

Derived terms

• upspring reel

References

• “upspring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• spring up

Old English

Etymology

By surface analysis, up- +‎ springan

Noun

upspring m

1. a springing up
2. rising of a heavenly body
   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Twelve Winds

     Fēower heafodwindas synd. Sē fyrmesta is ēasterne wind, subsolanus ġehāten, for þām ðe hē blæwð frām ðǣre sunnan upspringe, ⁊ ys swyðe ġemetegod. Sē ōðer heafodwind is sūðerne, auster ġehāten, sē āstyreð wolcnu, ⁊ ligettas, ⁊ mistlice cwyld blǣwð geond ðās eorðan.

     There are four headwinds. The first is the eastern wind, called subsolanus, because it blows from the rising of the sun, and is very moderate. The second headwind is southern, called auster, which stirs up clouds, and lightnings, and blows various plagues around the earth.

3. birth

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	upspring	upspringas
accusative	upspring	upspringas
genitive	upspringes	upspringa
dative	upspringe	upspringum

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “up-spring”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.