- wiþsprecan
- sv/t5 3rd pres wiþspricþ past wiþspræc/wiþsprǽcon ptp wiþsprecen to contradict, gainsay; converse; revile; speak with
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
wiþsprecan
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sprecan — speak … The Old English to English
speak — sprecan, cweþan, clipian … English to the Old English
Germanic strong verb — In the Germanic languages, a strong verb is one which marks its past tense by means of ablaut. In English, these are verbs like sing, sang, sung. The term strong verb is a translation of German starkes Verb , which was coined by the linguist… … Wikipedia
sculan — irreg v/i 3rd pres sceall, scal/sculon past sceolde, scolde, scealde, scalde ptp gesculen 1. to owe; hé him sceolde 10,000 peninga he owed him 10,000 pennies; 2. denoting obligation or constraint of various kinds, shall, must, ought, (I) have or… … Old to modern English dictionary
speak — [OE] The usual Old English word for ‘speak’ was sprecan, which has close living relatives in German sprechen and Dutch spreken. Specan, the ancestor of modern English speak, did not appear until around the year 1000, but already by the 12th… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
bespeak — (v.) O.E. besprecan speak about, speak against, complain, from BE (Cf. be ) + SPRECAN (Cf. sprecan) to speak (see SPEAK (Cf. speak)). A common Germanic compound (Cf. O.S. bisprecan, Du. bespreken, O.H.G. bisprehhan, Ger. besprechen … Etymology dictionary
speak — (v.) O.E. specan, variant of sprecan to speak (class V strong verb; past tense spræc, pp. sprecen), from P.Gmc. *sprekanan (Cf. O.S. sprecan, O.Fris. spreka, M.Du. spreken, O.H.G. sprehhan, Ger. sprechen to speak, O.N. spraki rumor … Etymology dictionary
speakable — speak (spēk) v. spoke (spōk), spo·ken (spō’kən), speak·ing, speaks v. intr. 1. To produce words by means of sounds; talk: »Can the baby speak yet? 2. a) To … Word Histories
speak — [OE] The usual Old English word for ‘speak’ was sprecan, which has close living relatives in German sprechen and Dutch spreken. Specan, the ancestor of modern English speak, did not appear until around the year 1000, but already by the 12th… … Word origins
Bespake — Bespeak Be*speak , v. t. [imp. {Bespoke}, {Bespake} (Archaic); p. p. {Bespoke}, {Bespoken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bespeaking}.] [OE. bispeken, AS. besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be + sprecan to speak. See {Speak}.] 1. To speak or arrange for… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
