upspring

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

• IPA^(key): /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/

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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?

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

• upspringing
• upsprung

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌpspɹɪŋ/

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upspring (plural upsprings)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An upstart.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     the swaggering upspring

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

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

• upspring reel

• spring up

By surface analysis, up- +‎ springan

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

Strong a-stem:

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