Sprint
late 18th century (as a dialect term meaning ‘a bound or spring’): related to Swedish spritta .
wiktionary
Alteration of earlier sprent(“to leap; bound; dart”), from Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną(“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ-(“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-(“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen(“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta(“to startle”), Icelandic spretta(“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).
etymonline
sprint (v.)
1560s, "to spring, dart," probably an alteration of sprenten "to leap, spring" (early 14c.), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse spretta "to jump up" (cognate with Swedish spritta "to start, startle"). Meaning "to run a short distance at full speed" first recorded 1871. Related: Sprinted; sprinting.
sprint (n.)
"short burst of running, etc.," 1865, from sprint (v.).
