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English
Noun
sparke (plural sparkes)
- Obsolete form of spark.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And, as it fell, his steed he ready found:
On whom remounting fiercely forth be rode,
Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode
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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English spearca, from Proto-West Germanic *sparkō, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
sparke (plural sparkes or (early) sparken)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “spark(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Verb
sparke (imperative spark, present tense sparker, passive sparkes, simple past and past participle sparka or sparket, present participle sparkende)
Derived terms
Related terms
- spark (noun)
References
- “sparke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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