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Upspring

//ʌpˈspɹɪŋ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A spring or leap into the air.
2
origin

Verb

1
To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being. intransitive
"In diamond light upspring the dazzling peaks Of Pyramids"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

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”).

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