Etymology

From Dutch spoegen ‎(“to spit”), a dialectal variant of spugen ‎(“to spit; to vomit”), reformed from spuwen (by analogy with its older strong past tense spoog), from Middle Dutch spuwen, from Old Dutch *spīwan, *spiuwan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- ‎(“to spit, vomit”).