An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/spritzen

by Friedrich Kluge

spritzen, vb., earlier sprützen, ‘to spirt, squirt, syringe, spout forth,’ from the equiv. MidHG. sprützen, whence Ital. spruzzare and sprizzare were borrowed; allied to MidHG. sprütze, ModHG. Spritze, f., ‘syringe, squirt’; derivs. of the Teut. root sprū̆t, ‘to grow up, shoot forth’ (see sprießen). Comp. E. to sprit, ‘to spirt’ and ‘to sprout.’