sparke

sparke (plural sparkes)

1. Obsolete form of spark.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And, as it fell, his steed he ready found:
     On whom remounting fiercely forth be rode,
     Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode

• Parkes, Pekars, Repkas, pakers

• sparc, sparck, spark, sperk, sperke

From Old English spearca, from Proto-West Germanic *sparkō, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspark(ə)/, /ˈspɛrk(ə)/

sparke (plural sparkes or (early) sparken)

1. spark (glowing particle)
2. (by extension) particle, mote

• sparkel
• sparken

• English: spark (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: spark, sperk

• “spark(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse sparka.

sparke (imperative spark, present tense sparker, passive sparkes, simple past and past participle sparka or sparket, present participle sparkende)

1. to kick
2. to fire, sack (terminate the employment of someone)

• sparkesykkel

• spark (noun)

• “sparke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.