An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/spritzen

by Friedrich Kluge

spritzen, verb, earlier sprützen, ‘to spirt, squirt, syringe, spout forth,’ from the equivalent Middle High German sprützen, whence Italian spruzzare and sprizzare were borrowed; allied to Middle High German sprütze, Modern High German Spritze, feminine, ‘syringe, squirt’; derivatives of the Teutonic root sprū̆t, ‘to grow up, shoot forth’ (see sprießen). Compare English to sprit, ‘to spirt’ and ‘to sprout.’