sprot

See also: šprot

Dutch

Sprattus sprattus

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from the root of spruit (“sprout, shoot”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

sprot m (plural sprotten, diminutive sprotje n)

1. sprat (Sprattus sprattus), a small, herring-like fish

Descendants

• Negerhollands: sprat

Further reading

• sprot on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• sport, strop

Old English

Etymology

See the verb sprūtan (“to sprout”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprot/
• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

sprot m

1. sprout, shoot, twig

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sprot	sprot
accusative	sprot	sprot
genitive	sprotes	sprota
dative	sprote	sprotum

Further reading

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