sputen

German

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpuːtən/
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Verb

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
    • 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 313:
      Magda hatte zu der Gräfin gesagt:Spute dich, du dumme Landpomeranze, daß der Herr Leutnant den Kaffee kriegt.“
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 361:
      Das Beisammensein zu dritt in dem Wartezimmerchen währte nicht lange. Man hatte drinnen mit Sascha und seiner Mutter wohl nicht viel Federlesens gemacht, man sputete sich, die Verspätung wieder einzuholen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Low German

Alternative forms

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

Verb

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.
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Middle English

Verb

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.
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