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How did the word sprawl come into the English vocabulary?

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Originated in Old English c. 5th. century spreawlian "move convulsively," with cognates in the Scandinavian languages and Northern Frisian spraweli, probably ultimately from Proto Indo European base sper- "to strew"

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