sputen

German

Etymology

From Old High German spuoten, from Proto-Germanic *spōdijaną. Cognate with English speed. Indo-European cognates include Old Church Slavonic спѣти (spěti, to hasten, to succeed), Russian спеть (spetʹ, ripen), Sanskrit स्फायते (sphā́yatē, to grow fat, increase).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

sputen (third-person singular simple present sputet, past tense sputete, past participle gesputet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (reflexive) to speed

Conjugation

Further reading

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