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Spring

April 18, 2007

Origin: bef. 900; OE spring and spryng

The sense of the season of the year after winter (when plants spring up) is first recorded in springtime (before 1398, in Trevisa's translation of Bartholomew's De Proprietatibus Rerum), but is found in the form spring in 1547, possibly as a shortening of the earlier spring of the leaf (1538).

Chambers Dictionary of Etymology

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Posted by céline, in Words, on April 18, 2007
Comments

What a beautiful picture. I'll have to send you one of our spring (after the snow melts...if ever.)
I'm wondering, has English or French changed more over the last 700 years?

Ron

Posted by Ron on April 19, 2007 1:26 AM

I'll be delighted to post any lovely Spring photo. I *heart* Spring.

Posted by céline on April 19, 2007 10:17 AM

Oh Celine, I wish we could see you gaily skipping down this path with a spring in your step.

Posted by bigboy on April 19, 2007 10:41 AM

following on from bigboy

...like Odette de Crécy with a suivez-moi-jeune-homme bobbing in the breeze.

Posted by SteveG on April 19, 2007 12:36 PM

bigboy is a BAD influence on this blog!!

Posted by céline on April 19, 2007 12:54 PM

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