Why this word is great
ATSPRING — [Verb] To spring forth, emerge, or originate with abrupt, definitive force. From Middle English atspringen, from Old English ætspringan (“to rush forth, spurt out, spring out”), equivalent to at- (an intensive or completive prefix) + spring (“to leap, burst forth”). Unlike “derive,” which implies a logical, traceable lineage, or “emanate,” which suggests a gradual, flowing radiation, to atspring is to rupture into being with primal urgency. It is the crocus punching through frost-hardened earth, the first cold jet of a wellhead breaking the earth's crust, the unsummoned sob that breaks from a tightened throat—the quiet shock of genesis as a violent and complete arrival.