Etymology

spout

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Today it means: A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. Full definition →

Middle English spouten ← Middle Dutch spoiten ← Old Dutch *spūten
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*spīwatjaną
  2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*spīwattjan
  3. Old Dutch · derived from*spūten
  4. Middle Dutch · derived fromspoiten
  5. Middle English · inherited fromspouten
  6. English todayspout

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.

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