speken
Middle English
verb
Definitions
- to speak (communicate using the voice)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English specan (speak) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (speak, say, make a sound).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sprekaną
Gloss
speak, say, make a sound
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
話
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Newspeak English
- autospeak English
- bespeak English
- bullspeak English
- cyberspeak English
- duckspeak English
- farspeak English
- forespeak English
- forspeak English
- forthspeak English
- inspeak English
- lolspeak English
- mallspeak English
- misspeak English
- newspeak English
- outspeak English
- overspeak English
- respeak English
- speak English
- speakability English
- speakable English
- speakeasy English
- speaker English
- speakest English
- speaketh English
- speakie English
- speaking English
- speako English
- speakout English
- speakworthy English
- textspeak English
- underspeak English
- unspeak English
- upspeak English
- withspeak English
- spiikki Finnish
- *spreg- Proto-Indo-European
- *sprekandz Proto-Germanic
- *sprekaną Proto-Germanic
- *sprukiz Proto-Germanic
- *misspecan Old English
- *wiþspecan Old English
- specan Old English
- sprecan Old English
- wiþsprecan Old English
- mysspeken Middle English
- withspeken Middle English
- newspeak Czech
- novořeč Czech
- sprehhan Old High German
- spikka Faroese
- sprecan Old Dutch
- sprekan Old Saxon
- spreka Old Frisian
- pük Volapük
- spikön Volapük
- piki Sranan Tongo