upspring

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “upspring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)

Verb

upspring (third-person singular simple present upsprings, present participle upspringing, simple past upsprang or upsprung, past participle upsprung)

(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?

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʌpspɹɪŋ/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

upspring (plural upsprings)

(obsolete) 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
A spring or leap into the air.
origin

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

upspring reel

Anagrams

spring up

Old English

Etymology

By surface analysis, up- +‎ springan

Noun

upspring m

a springing up
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.
birth

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	upspring	upspringas
accusative	upspring	upspringas
genitive	upspringes	upspringa
dative	upspringe	upspringum

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “up-spring”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.