sputen

17th century, at first alongside spuden, both secondary adaptations of Middle Low German spôden, from Proto-West Germanic *spōdijan, derived from *spōdi (“prosperity, success”), itself from the verb *spōan, from Proto-Germanic *spōaną (“to prosper, succeed, be happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, turn out well”). The West Germanic verb had a cognate in Old High German spuoten, which however remained without continuation. Cognate with Dutch spoeden, English speed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃpuːtən/

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1. (reflexive, literary, otherwise regional or slightly dated) to hurry, to make haste

   Synonym: beeilen

   • 1918, Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan‎, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 313:

     Magda hatte zu der Gräfin gesagt: „Spute dich, du dumme Landpomeranze, daß der Herr Leutnant den Kaffee kriegt.“

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   • 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 361:

     Das Beisammensein zu dritt in dem Wartezimmerchen währte nicht lange. Man hatte drinnen mit Sascha und seiner Mutter wohl nicht viel Federlesens gemacht, man sputete sich, die Verspätung wieder einzuholen.

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• Sput f (rare)

• “sputen” in Duden online
• “sputen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• spoden (Dithmarschen)
• spauden (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
• speuten (Dorf Hahlen bei Minden in Westfalen)

sputen

1. (reflexive) (to) hurry
   • 1861, Lüder Woort, Plattdeutsche Dichtungen, page 103:

     Gau rögt sik de Lüd
     Un sökt sik mit Flid
     Bir Arbeit to sputen.

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sputen

1. spouted, uttered
   • 14th century / 1864, Early English alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the fourteenth Century. Copied and edited from a unique Manuscript in the Library of the British Museum. With an Introduction, Notes, and glossarial Index, p. 63, l. 845, and p. 195:
     • Whatt! þay sputen & speken of so spitous fylþe,
     • Sputen = spouted, uttered, B. 845.