sterten

Middle English

Alternative forms

sturten, styrtan, stirten, steorten, starten

Etymology

From Old English styrtan, from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”).

Verb

sterten

to leap
- c. 1250, Anonymous, "Cuckoo Song" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
  Bulluc sterteth
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
to start
to begin

Related terms

stert

Descendants

English: start, sturt (dialectal)
Scots: stert, start
Yola: starth

References

“sterten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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