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Where does “spriet” come from?
spriet (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch *spriet, from Proto-West Germanic *spreut.
Ancestry of “spriet”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Dutch
*spriet
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2
Proto-West Germanic
*spreut
—
Words derived from “spriet”
spriet
boegspriet
grasspriet
voelspriet
beaupré
бушприт
bauprés
bauprès
Beaupre
bompresso
bompres
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