sprot

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

• Audio:

  (file)

sprot m (plural sprotten, diminutive sprotje n)

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

• Negerhollands: sprat

• sprot on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• sport, strop

• IPA^(key): /sprot/

sprot m

1. sprout, shoot, twig

Strong a-stem:

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